By now you may have heard of Amazon EC2. If you need a computer / server and virtual private (or more) running constantly and allowing applications to be administered at any time through the cloud, that's the kind of service you seek, however, the neighborhood is about to a bit more populated. With the I / O conference entering its final day, the Mountain View giant officially announced its platform Google Compute Engine. With more than 770 thousand families and counting, the new platform promises GCE increased processing power at lower cost, something that definitely sounds good in theory.

Perhaps an average user with a desktop, a laptop and / or tablet available to ask (with some validity) that want a virtual computer in the cloud. If your hardware needs are met, there may be no reason to have one, but the point is that, in most cases, these needs "no" are covered. Virtualization is one of the best things we have passed, and having access to all virtual machines that we want in exchange for a certain cost increases the chances of success for any project. I know some users use virtual systems in the cloud to create "boxes torrent", however, such use is negligible in comparison with large-scale projects that require thousands of cores in parallel, to carry them out in a reasonable time.

Here is where the new option of Google, called Google Compute Engine. Web sites, online games, content distribution and databases are some applications that can have virtual environments based on Linux (Ubuntu or CentOS are the main options) GCE. The key to better understand the GCE platform is think big. During his demonstration, executed an application focused on analyzing the human genome, and assigned to it about 600 thousand families, which verifies that the CGE has a level of flexibility and impressive processing power. Google has said that his GCE can provide up to fifty percent more calculations per dollar, and when operating on such a scale, there is no doubt that every penny counts.



With this announcement, Google clearly seeks to erode the position of Amazon EC2. It's as if Google is in a sort of cold war against Amazon, the first consumer-level tablet with the Nexus 7, and now with a very high-profile platform as CGE. Obviously, Amazon has several years ahead and have more varied options (virtual systems can run Linux or Windows, according to what the user needs), but beyond the differences, the smallest instance of Google seems to deliver more amount of resources worth more than reasonable. The platform is in beta, and Google is already offering "trials" limited to selected projects.

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