Google Cloud Platform Live

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by dudus • 12 years ago

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dudus• 12 years ago

This is starting in a few minutes now.

zafirk• 12 years ago

live now!

turing• 12 years ago

Some of the key take-aways: -30-85% price cuts for Compute Engine, App Engine, Cloud Storage, and BigQuery

-new DevOps tools

-launching Cloud DNS service

-launching BigQuery streaming service

-launching Managed Virtual Machines for App Engine

A more detailed write-up with some of the notable announcements from the keynotes:

http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/25/googles-cloud-platform-goes...

dragonwriter• 12 years ago

The techcruch article seems to just be a rewrite of the Google Cloud Platform Blog post with the announcements [1] into "Google announced..." wording:

http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2014/03/google-cloud...

alooPotato3• 12 years ago

Anyone have a reference to how much the appengine pricing reductions are?

crb• 12 years ago

https://developers.google.com/appengine/pricing

davidjgraph• 12 years ago

Looks like front and back end instances are down 37.5%. But discounted front end instances seem to have been removed, the new standard F1 price is the same as the old discounted price. If you were optimized for discounted instances, you might not notice too much difference.

Outgoing bandwidth and datastore are the same as before.

[0] https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/adminconsole/pe...

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20131215071917/https://developers...

[2] https://developers.google.com/appengine/pricing

christiangenco• 12 years ago

Whoa, since when are Chrome User Profiles[1] a thing? It's like having multiple incognito sessions.

1. https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2364824?hl=en

jamesaguilar• 12 years ago

It's been a thing for a long time. My wife and I have been using them for at least two years, IIRC.

icco• 12 years ago

I've been using them since August 2011 at the very least. They were suggested to me when I started my job as a way to keep my work and personal accounts separate.

derefr• 12 years ago

On top of that option, you've always been able to create a Chrome launcher shortcut that runs the Chrome executable with a separate --user-data-dir argument.

This forces Chrome to spawn a new browser process for your separate profile, which means that desktop environments which group windows by "application" (i.e. Windows 7+8, OSX, Gnome) will group the alternate-profile windows separately.

Slap a custom icon on that launcher, and it's like having another browser installed which just-so-happens to also be Chrome.

If you're using Portable Chrome, Chromium, or Canary (or Firefox!) just for the sake of "protecting" some of your browsing under encrypted/removable storage, this is a much lower-overhead solution: just create a launcher with the --user-data-dir pointed into protected storage.

aiiane• 12 years ago

Yeah, Chrome user profiles are awesome. I've been using them basically forever; they're the most robust solution I've found for using multiple accounts on a given service (e.g. Google account).

curiousDog• 12 years ago

I hope they do something about their support. It is abysmal to say the least.

alooPotato3• 12 years ago

you can buy their premium support packages which actually offer really good support. If you're doing anything serious on the cloud platform its super cheap and totally worth it.

dewitt• 12 years ago

Hi curiousDog, if you're paying for one of our support packages (https://cloud.google.com/support/) and you're not happy, I'd be interested to hear about what's not working for you. You can email me at dewitt at google.

(If the free support isn't working, I'd still be interested, but also would likely recommend you consider signing up for a Silver or Gold package if you're building a business on GCP. Thanks!)

mattchen• 12 years ago

I guess the online cloud computing space is getting more and more competitive. Has anyone used digital ocean before? https://www.digitalocean.com

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