Google Unveils Compute Engine to Take On Amazon Web Services
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Google Inc., owner of the world’s most popular search engine, unveiled a cloud-computing service for building and running applications to help woo customers and challenge Amazon.com Inc.’s Web Services.
The new service, called Compute Engine, will give developers deeper access to computing power through the Internet, Google said today at its I/O developers conference in San Francisco. Compute Engine offers more options for building than the existing Google App Engine service.