{"id":238616,"date":"2017-11-21T15:37:39","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T13:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=238616"},"modified":"2017-11-21T15:39:22","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T13:39:22","slug":"google-cuts-cloud-platform-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/238616-google-cuts-cloud-platform-prices.html","title":{"rendered":"Google cuts Cloud Platform prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is <a href=\"https:\/\/cloudplatform.googleblog.com\/2017\/11\/new-lower-prices-for-GPUs-and-preemptible-Local-SSDs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>cutting the price<\/strong><\/a> of using its\u00a0Nvidia Tesla GPUs through its Compute Engine.<\/p>\n<p>It said prices will be reduced by up to 36%.<\/p>\n<p>K80 GPUs will now cost $0.45 per hour in the US, while the newer\u00a0P100 machines will cost $1.46 per hour. All prices are billed per-second.<\/p>\n<p>Google is also cutting the price of its\u00a0preemptible local SSDs by almost 40% (SSDs attached to Google\u2019s preemptible VMs).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We hope that the price reduction on Nvidia Tesla GPUs and preemptible Local SSDs unlocks new opportunities and helps you solve more interesting business, engineering, and scientific problems,&#8221; said Google.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/236750-liquid-telecoms-100g-network-upgrade-in-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Liquid Telecom\u2019s 100G network upgrade in South Africa<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is cutting the price of using its\u00a0Nvidia Tesla GPUs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":152157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[47442,167],"class_list":["post-238616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-compute-engine","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238618,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238616\/revisions\/238618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}