[amalag]

This article doesn't mention what Google will do better than Amazon other than: "The instances boot fast". I don't understand why Google is releasing this cloud offering with the same paradigm as EC2 but as a subset of features. I would think they would have attacked the pain points of EC2 much better. Their Google app engine was a different paradigm which people liked but didn't take off. Why would anyone bother with Google's offering? The costs are roughly the same and the featureset is less. I would think they could differentiate with hosted machine learning or more in the BigTable querying.