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Over the past few years, cloud computing has become an integral part of businesses, particularly those that rely on the internet. Now, many firms are no longer struggling with complicated networking and on-premise server rooms. The move has been triggered by the many benefits associated with cloud computing when it comes to reliability, cost-effectiveness, and security (Upadhyay, 2017). The cloud computing industry is mainly dominated by Google and Amazon. This paper argues that Google cloud computing services are better compared to those offered by Amazon in terms of pricing and discount despite them being unavailable in some regions.
Referring to pricing, customers pay between $0.011 and $ 0.27 per hour for Amazon web services (Amazon EMR Pricing, n.d.). Although the company has a per-second rate, it has a one-minute minimum policy when computing the amount of money, the customers ought to pay for using its services (Amazon EMR Pricing, n.d.). On the other hand, Google cloud computing services are cheaper as compared to those offered by Amazon. For instance, a customer pays 2 cents per month compared to 2.3 cents over …show more content…

According to Upadhyay, the pay-as-you-go model has saved small and medium enterprises large sums of money since these firms no longer require to make huge upfront capital infrastructure investments in terms of hiring and maintaining skilled system administrators and developers and procuring the necessary information technology. Google cloud platform offers a better package when it comes to long-term usage, Google cloud computing services provide automatic discounts for customers who continues to enjoy these services for longer periods and no reservation is required (Google Cloud. N.d). Besides, Google and Amazon offer a one-year free trial. In addition, Google also offers a tree tier that is not time limited (Aboukhalil,

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