Google Cloud is finally here

Amazon gets some competition, and customers should see some relief, unless Google withdraws commitment on these products after a few years of trying (like it often does now!)

http://cloud.google.com/products/index.html

Machine Type Pricing
Configuration	Virtual Cores	Memory	GCEU *	Local disk	Price/Hour	$/GCEU/hour
n1-standard-1-d	1	3.75GB ***	2.75	420GB ***	$0.145	0.053
n1-standard-2-d	2	7.5GB	5.5	870GB	$0.29	0.053
n1-standard-4-d	4	15GB	11	1770GB	$0.58	0.053
n1-standard-8-d	8	30GB	22	2 x 1770GB	$1.16	0.053

Network Pricing
Ingress	Free
Egress to the same Zone.	Free
Egress to a different Cloud service within the same Region.	Free
Egress to a different Zone in the same Region (per GB)	$0.01
Egress to a different Region within the US	$0.01 ****
Inter-continental Egress	At Internet Egress Rate

Internet Egress (Americas/EMEA destination) per GB
0-1 TB in a month	$0.12
1-10 TB	$0.11
10+ TB	$0.08

Internet Egress (APAC destination) per GB
0-1 TB in a month	$0.21
1-10 TB	$0.18
10+ TB	$0.15

Persistent Disk Pricing
Provisioned space	$0.10 GB/month
Snapshot storage**	$0.125 GB/month
IO Operations	$0.10 per million

IP Address Pricing
Static IP address (assigned but unused)	$0.01 per hour
Ephemeral IP address (attached to instance)	Free

* GCEU is Google Compute Engine Unit — a measure of computational power of our instances based on industry benchmarks; review the GCEU definition for more information
** coming soon
*** 1GB is defined as 2^30 bytes
**** promotional pricing; eventually will be charged at internet download rates

Google Prediction API

Tap into Google’s machine learning algorithms to analyze data and predict future outcomes.

Leverage machine learning without the complexity
Use the familiar RESTful interface
Enter input in any format – numeric or text

Build smart apps

Learn how you can use Prediction API to build customer sentiment analysis, spam detection or document and email classification.

Google Translation API

Use Google Translate API to build multilingual apps and programmatically translate text in your webpage or application.

Translate text into other languages programmatically
Use the familiar RESTful interface
Take advantage of Google’s powerful translation algorithms

Build multilingual apps

Learn how you can use Translate API to build apps that can programmatically translate text in your applications or websites.

Google BigQuery

Analyze Big Data in the cloud using SQL and get real-time business insights in seconds using Google BigQuery. Use a fully-managed data analysis service with no servers to install or maintain.
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Google App Engine

Create apps on Google’s platform that are easy to manage and scale. Benefit from the same systems and infrastructure that power Google’s applications.

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Let us worry about the underlying infrastructure and systems.
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See your applications scale seamlessly from hundreds to millions of users.
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