Facing competition from Amazon, Google slashes cloud machine learning prices - SiliconANGLE

Google Inc. has reacted to the launch of rival Amazon Web Services Inc.'s SageMaker machine learning service by dramatically slashing the cost of its own offering. Technology news website VentureBeat first reported the price cuts, citing a blog posted online by Google that was later removed. However, the new prices for its managed cloud machine learning service are reflected in the company's official documentation. The cuts are fairly significant, with customers now being charged 43 percent less than before for Google's basic tier compute service for training machine learning algorithms, VentureBeat reported. It's not clear why Google's blog post was pulled, but it could have something to do with a couple of other new services the company is planning to launch soon.