
"So just think about that. Imagine making a 1 minute phone call and then you get charged for a minimum of 10 minutes. It makes no sense"
Google is done dabbling with raw compute and storage infrastructure and has thrown the doors wide open on its Compute Engine services, while at the same time offering finer-grained pricing and fatter persistent storage for its virtual machines than is available from Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Windows Azure, and other public …
If you're not using servers for short periods, the per-minute pricing won't make a lot of difference. In other respects, Google's pricing is broadly similar to Amazon's, with a less-sophisticated infrastructure support. Even if Google does get into a price war with Amazon, the differences will be marginal unless one or the other is running a short-term loss leader to try to get a market shut-out.
Right now, with most of our VM instances running constantly, I'm not seeing a strong incentive to migrate from AWS (with GreenQloud fallback) to Google - but I look forward to seeing the bun-fight - and reaping the benefits - as these two big players (I'm not including Azure here) compete for dominance.