Google Cloud Platform

Google, AWS say it's too hard for customers to use Linux to swerve Azure

Re-writing applications takes years, is expensive, in-house expertise needed

PaaS + IaaS17 Apr 2025 | 64

AWS claims 50% of Azure workloads would jump ship if licensing costs allowed

Bezos' biz and Google tell regulator higher cost of running Windows Server in their clouds isn't fair

Software16 Apr 2025 | 37

Google Cloud’s so-called uninterruptible power supplies caused a six-hour interruption

When the power went out, they didn’t switch on

Off-Prem15 Apr 2025 | 29

Google offers 7th-gen Ironwood TPUs for AI, with AI-inspired comparisons

Cloud Next Sure, we're doing FP8 versus a supercomputer's FP64. What of it?

AI + ML10 Apr 2025 | 2

Cloud market working well ... if you're AWS and Microsoft

Brit monopoly plod files report on health of local sector, says technical barriers and Redmond's licensing practices hurting smaller rivals + customers

PaaS + IaaS28 Jan 2025 | 2

Google snags ex-Microsoft exec to helm cloud in the UK

Maureen Costello hopes to 'empower' businesses with AI

PaaS + IaaS08 Jan 2025 | 6

Looming energy crunch makes future uncertain for datacenters

But investors still betting big on bit barns thanks to AI and cloud demand

On-Prem06 Jan 2025 | 12

Google offered millions to ally itself with trade body fighting Microsoft

Exclusive El Reg has seen the presentation to CISPE members which sources say was intended to keep the lawsuit over licensing alive

PaaS + IaaS28 Nov 2024 | 12

Don't have MFA on a Google Cloud account? You'll have to from Jan

Lock it up. Lock it up

PaaS + IaaS05 Nov 2024 | 6

Microsoft accuses Google of creating a lobbying front called 'Open Cloud Coalition'

Seemingly dissatisfied with CISPE settlement, new UK-centric cloudy industry group calls for end to 'restrictive licensing'

Software29 Oct 2024 | 12

Google files first ever complaint with European Commission against Microsoft

Mountain View versus Redmond: Fight over cloud software licensing policies gets formal

PaaS + IaaS25 Sep 2024 | 29

Cloud giants point the finger at each other during regulator hearings

Those are some mighty powerful underdogs you've got there

PaaS + IaaS18 Sep 2024 | 4

'Hyperscale customer' to take massive datacenter site near London

Exclusive 'Commercially sensitive' incognito buyer has a lot more support than last group that tried to build a bit barn near M25

On-Prem13 Sep 2024 | 52

Admins wonder if the cloud was such a good idea after all

As AWS, Microsoft, and Google hike some prices, it's time to open up the ROI calculator

PaaS + IaaS04 Sep 2024 | 141

The elusive dream of cloud portability: Why migrating workloads isn't so simple

Analysis Despite early promises, moving between providers remains a complex and costly endeavor

Cloud Infrastructure Month27 Aug 2024 | 18

When it comes to cloud, it's China against the world

Amazon, Microsoft, and Google dominate the west, but the Middle Kingdom plays by its own rules

Off-Prem21 Aug 2024 | 6

UK competition regulator's cloud probe remedies have global implications

Egress fees? Ticked. Spend discounts? Not yet. Software licensing? Might need to shape up, Microsoft

Cloud Infrastructure Month21 Aug 2024 | 2

Google-commissioned report claims early adopters already enjoying fruits of gen-AI labor

Analysis 43% of the time, it really, really works 45% of the time

AI + ML12 Aug 2024 | 52

Google, Oracle, Microsoft make their case for VMware migrations – HPE on the outer?

New instance types and discounts galore, and Broadcom all smiles as its preferred licensing finds more friends

VMware Explore22 Jul 2024 | 6

Google: We're still working to defeat Microsoft's 'anticompetitive' cloud policy

Yesterday's settlement between MS and Euro cloud providers shouldn't 'fool' you, says Alphabet arm's cloud boss

PaaS + IaaS11 Jul 2024 | 16

Google Cloud shows it can break things for lots of customers – not just one at a time

Deleted about 40 networks that services needed, causing late Thursday fun

Off-Prem20 May 2024 | 29

Google says its 'Trillium' TPUs are ready to power the next-generation of AI models

I/O Promises 4.7x performance boost over its older silicon

Systems14 May 2024 | 4

Google Cloud blunder sinks Australian fund for a week

That pesky 'previously unknown software bug' strikes again

PaaS + IaaS08 May 2024 | 11

Protest group says Google has fired more staff over sit-ins opposing work for Israel

Group of now-ex Googlers say 50 folks have been let go, vow ongoing protests

Off-Prem22 Apr 2024 | 86

Google fires 28 staff after sit-in protest against Israeli cloud deal ends in arrests

Alphabet Workers Union says bosses refuse to listen to concerns

Off-Prem18 Apr 2024 | 95

Stability AI reportedly ran out of cash to pay its bills for rented cloudy GPUs

Generative AI darling was on track to pay $99M on compute to generate just $11M in revenues

AI + ML03 Apr 2024 | 22

Companies flush money down the drain with overfed Kubernetes cloud clusters

Just 13% of provisioned CPUs, 20% of memory utilized, study finds

PaaS + IaaS01 Mar 2024 | 13

40k servers, 400k CPUs and 40 PB of storage later... welcome to Google Cloud

Sabre Technology shutters 17 datacenters, says 90% of workloads transferred

PaaS + IaaS27 Feb 2024 | 13

AWS accuses Microsoft of clipping customers' cloud freedoms

World's biggest off-prem service slinger submits comments to UK cloud inquiry, mostly has Redmond HQ's rival in its sights

PaaS + IaaS07 Dec 2023 | 8

Google submits complaints about Microsoft licensing to UK competition regulator

Now Microsoft has regulator breathing down its neck in three regions

PaaS + IaaS01 Dec 2023 | 7

Google Cloud misses revenue estimates – and it's your fault, wanting smaller bills

Keeping old servers alive is more lucrative than the G-Cloud

Off-Prem25 Oct 2023 | 15

Google offers some copyright indemnity to users of its generative AI services

'If you are challenged, we will assume responsibility'

AI + ML12 Oct 2023 | 8

UK IaaS market: Deeper probe by competition regulator lands soon

Updated Ofcom to refer findings to CMA – which insiders say will home in on egress fees, interoperability and licensing

PaaS + IaaS03 Oct 2023 | 5

Google exec: Microsoft Teams concession 'too little, too late'

If you don't tackle Redmond's abuse of software licensing in rival clouds it'll be game over for innovation, warns Amit Zavery

Cloud Infrastructure Month15 Sep 2023 | 39

Google wants to take a byte out of Oracle workloads with PostgreSQL migration service

Third-party and bespoke apps most likely candidates for the switch

Databases30 Aug 2023 | 15

Google throws down gauntlet with first compute instances powered by AmpereOne chips

Interview Though this is still a preview so another provider could swing it

Systems30 Aug 2023 | 1

Google sharpens AI toolset with new chips, GPUs, more at Cloud Next

Cloud Next TPU v5e, A3 VMs, and GKE Enterprise headline first in-person shindig since pandemic

Cloud Infrastructure Month29 Aug 2023 |

Microsoft still prohibits Google or Alibaba from running O365 Windows Apps

Almost a month after AWS concession, Redmond keeping mum on reason for locking rivals out

PaaS + IaaS25 Aug 2023 | 40

Microsoft India poaches former AWS India boss Puneet Chandok

Current boss bails for unspecified non-tech gig

Software02 Aug 2023 |

AWS and Azure own lion's share of $120B cloud infrastructure market

China's Alibaba comes in third followed by Google and Huawei

PaaS + IaaS18 Jul 2023 | 2

Infosec watchers: TeamTNT crew may blast holes in Azure, Google Cloud users

Why limit yourself to only stealing AWS credentials?

Cyber-crime15 Jul 2023 |

Lucky backup might save 100 days of data for InfluxData's GCP Belgium users

Updated AWS Sydney users less fortunate – the backup was deleted

Databases14 Jul 2023 | 9

Microsoft to hike prices in Australia and New Zealand

Asia In Brief ALSO: Google Cloud extends support in Korean and Mandarin; Cambodia lashes Meta; MSFT India boss bails; and more

Systems10 Jul 2023 | 3

Google shows cloud customers it's happy to have an open relationship

You can play the field and Chocolate Factory won't throw your stuff out

PaaS + IaaS02 Jun 2023 | 1

Google veep calls out Microsoft's cloud software licensing 'tax'

Exclusive Watchdogs are 'starting to understand the situation,' exec tells El Reg

Off-Prem01 Jun 2023 | 55

Google Cloud upgrades with next-gen accelerator that embiggens its VMs

Homebrew Infrastructure Processing Unit virtualizes networks and storage to make Sapphire Rapids Xeons sing

Off-Prem23 May 2023 | 1

Google Cloud's watery Parisian outage enters third week, with no end in sight

To make matters worse, other bits of the same region have wobbled

Networks10 May 2023 | 20

Google Cloud makes its first profit, 15 years after launching

Alphabet finds $1.6 billion of benefits by sweating its servers and networks for longer

Off-Prem26 Apr 2023 | 9

Cloud projects keep being postponed amid economic uncertainty

OVH joins AWS, Microsoft and others in saying customer deals not dead... they're just resting

CxO19 Apr 2023 | 3

Ofcom tempted to bring in competition watchdog to sniff the UK cloud market

As much as 80% in the hands of three companies – you can guess which

PaaS + IaaS05 Apr 2023 | 8

Google Cloud pitches 'Gen Apps' – low-code AI-based tools, not post-millennial kids

We've got your summarization, your Q&A, your chatbots, your classification tasks ready to go

Off-Prem30 Mar 2023 | 7

You just gonna take that AWS? Let Microsoft school your users on cloud security?

And Google Cloud is next

CSO21 Mar 2023 | 3

Google Cloud's US-East load balancers are lousy with latency

Monday morning rush job, anyone? Asking 'cos there's no ETA for a fix other than moving to another region

Off-Prem20 Mar 2023 | 11

Cloud, datacenter vendors muscle in on traditional telco territory at MWC

Join us in the 'new world of opportunity' says GSMA chief

Networks28 Feb 2023 | 1

Google staff asked to share desk space in latest cost purge

From free massage therapy and on-site gyms to alternating desk days with fellow Googlers

SaaS23 Feb 2023 | 57

Taking notes from AWS, Google prepares custom Arm server chips of its own

Aim of the game is to match Intel and AMD on performance

Systems14 Feb 2023 | 11