Google Updates Google Cloud Platform Products
Google has made updates to a number of its Google Cloud Platform products. These updates, to products such as Big Query, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage and Google App Engine, are based on user feedback and intended to improve the user experience. The updates include enhancements to Google Cloud SQL, which now offers faster performance, 100GB databases, and “no-cost” trials. Google also promises a number of upcoming enhancements to their platform, including additional storage and compute capabilities, European Datacenter support and more competitive prices.
Google customers should be pleased to note the company has introduced a 20% price reduction on standard Google Cloud Storage. They also introduced a preview of Durable Reduced Availability (DRA) storage to a limited number of users. DRA storage benefits users by reducing prices through trading available data resources while ensuring standard Google Cloud Storage performance and durability. It also saves costs by eliminating redundant data replication and can be used to facilitate fast data back-up access. The solution now also offers Object Versioning, which maintains a history of old data versions to protect against data deletion or overwriting.
Google’s improved European Datacenter support means Google App Engine, Google Cloud Storage, Google Cloud SQL customers, and customers of the upcoming Google Compute Engine, can deploy virtual machines applications, data and applications to datacenters in Europe. In addition, earlier in 2012, Google launched a preview of Google Compute Engine with four standard instance types. This has now been increased to a total of 40 instance types, including original 4 standard instances, the cost of which has been brought down by around 5%. Upcoming enhancements include High Memory Instance for applications which use a lot of memory, High CPU Instance, which reduces costs when applications don’t use much memory, and Diskless Configurations where costs are reduced for applications that do not require a ephemeral disk and utilize a persistent disk. Alongside these measures, Google is also introducing Persistent Disk Snapshotting which creates images of disks to create backups which can be moved around Google datacenters.
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