Google Cloud launches committed-use discounts, can cut monthly costs by 57%

At its Google Cloud Next conference in San Francisco today, Google announced the launch of a new discounting system for its Google Cloud Platform public cloud offering. Customers will be able to get a lower cost after committing to a particular volume.
That model is different from the reserved instances available from public cloud market leader Amazon Web Services (AWS). And it’s in addition to the sustained-use discounts, per-minute pricing, and preemptible virtual machines (VMs) that Goo