8 Signs That Amazon Is In Other Cloud Vendors' Heads

Google Opens Compute Engine IaaS To More Users, Cuts Pricing

Google, which debuted support plans for its cloud services in February, last week opened its Google Compute Engine IaaS to a wider set of users. Google also added new features and cut pricing by 4 percent across the board. Hear that, Amazon? Those are the hefty-sounding footsteps of a deep-pocketed cloud rival behind you -- one that is pretty good at data center design as well. Google has been aggressively raiding talent from Amazon Web Services. Sunil James, former senior product manager at AWS, is now a product manager at Google responsible for networking products and technologies on the Google Cloud Platform, as noted by GigaOM earlier this month.