At its Cloud Next event that is currently taking place in San Fransisco, Google has been announcing all sorts of things including new host locations and so on. The company has moved on to pricing now and has announced a brand new scheme in beta, which will allow users to avail virtual machines at reduced prices.
Nothing in life is free however, and you are eligible for these reduces prices only if you commit to the Google cloud for one or three years. Decide your tenure, that must exceed one or three years and also decide how many cores and how much memory you want to buy in bulk for those years.
Once you do so, Google will give you a pretty sweet discount that can go all the way up to 57 percent. What’s more, you can also distribute that allotment between machines at will.
Meanwhile, the pricing scheme is certainly unique. And very enticing. The discounts are huge and could well be enough to pull someone dithering about spending their resources buying Google virtual machines, over. None of Google’s competitors in the field have any thing of the sort to offer.
Meanwhile, Google Cloud has always been one of the more flexible ones around. For instance, the company a;ready offers sustained usage discounts that kick into action after using a machine for a full month. This is in contrast to to other service providers where you have to sign up for a full three years to avail any sort of a discount.
Google’s new schemes, particularly the ability to chose the number of cores and the amount of memory, plus of course the massive discounts, would likely bring in many more customers for the company. Something tells me that we might just see its competitors emulating these new schemes in the near future.
