IDG Contributor Network: Bring back the price wars: Google Preemptible VMs now up to 33% cheaper

News this morning from Google, which is announcing some price changes for some of its cloud computing products.

For a little background here, Google is widely regarded as being in third place in the public cloud infrastructure wars, trailing a long way back from Amazon Web Services (AWS), the front-runner, and Microsoft Azure in second place. Indeed, the most recent Gartner analysis about the public cloud space had a few surprises (in particular the absolutely abysmal scores for both IBM and Oracle) -- one of the surprises was that Google has lost a little ground to both Microsoft and AWS, with the former seemingly moving closer to AWS over the past year.

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