Google's new IaaS cloud boasts strong compute performance but lacks the breadth of features in Amazon Web Services' 4-year-old Elastic Compute Cloud, according to one industry analyst's side-by-side comparison of the services. full story ![]()
Even as Google makes moves to compel developers to try out the Google Cloud Platform, developers see Amazon Web Services as the clear cloud to beat, at least for now.
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Amazon is numero uno in consumer appeal, beating out even Apple and Google, according to Harris Interactive. Also, Cloud Foundry gets big backer in NTT and states reconsider sales taxes on cloud services.
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Google Drive and LinkedIn suffered snafus this week; and Amazon will reportedly build a not-so-secret cloud for the Central Intelligence Agency.
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The cloud is dominated by massive, super-scale providers like Google and Amazon. But that is going to change, and eventually every business big or small will have a cloud suited specifically to their needs.
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Business customers who want more support than Google Groups or Stack Overflow for Google Cloud workloads can now choose from four tiers of Google-branded support.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has lowered the cost of running Windows on its cloud, while Google announced a reduction on all Compute Engine pricing. Google has also expanded the number of virtual servers users can choose from and made its cloud more Euro friendly.Competition in the market for public cloud platform and infrastructure services is heating up, as vendors compete...
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A little space in the cloud doesn’t cost a lot. The first five gigabytes, in fact, usually are free from services like Amazon’s Cloud Drive, Google Drive and Apple’s iCloud.
thonline.com (1 month and 23 days ago)
Something Amazon is really good at and something Apple is not: the cloud. Amazon hones in on its competitors' cloud-based photo territory on Apple's own platform with a new app.
gigaom.com (15 days ago)

News flash: The public cloud "ain't all that," says every cloud provider but Amazon Web Services.
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There was lots of chit-chat on what VMware could, should, will do about its Amazon public cloud problem and Amazon raised a ruckus with a free preview of Trusted Advisor.
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