Google ups the ante against Amazon's cloud service

Extensive upgrades to Google's infrastructure-as-a-service cloud computing technology heighten competition with market leader Amazon Web Services.

by Jack Clark

November 26, 2012 11:41 AM PST

Google has added 36 new types of server to its rentable cloud infrastructure.

The additions to Google Compute Engine, the company's infrastructure-as-a-service technology, were announced by Google on Monday.

"At launch we offered four basic [instance types]," Barak Regev, head of Google's Cloud Platform in EMEA, told ZDNet. "If you aggregate [the 36 new instances] into brackets, you'll see they are touching the high-memory and high-CPU instances [but] the one that is most notable is the diskless file configuration."

Read more of "Google goes after Amazon with cloud upgrades" at ZDNet.

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