[talklittle]

Come on, HN. How can nobody be mentioning some of the much cooler stuff available on Google Cloud?

https://cloud.google.com/products/machine-learning/

It's a mistake to just compare Google with AWS, thinking in terms of basic storage and computing. That's boring and obviously there are tons of alternatives, including Snap Inc. building it themselves, for the amount of money cited.

When it comes to cutting edge AI and related, Google's offerings clearly stand out among other cloud services.

[mnutt]

Are these sorts of things latency-sensitive enough that they couldn't use them with EC2 and similar? Or are the bandwidth needs so large that bandwidth charges cancel out any compute savings?

[vmarsy]

How is it different from Azure ML and Microsoft Cognitive services?

[theduffd]

I'm guessing it's their incredible amount of user data to drive that ML and AI.

[eanzenberg]

Are they charging per single prediction like amazon? If so then it's almost a non-starter unless ML is the product.

[eitally]

Sort of, but not exactly. https://cloud.google.com/ml/pricing