Google slashes prices for its machine learning service as AWS steps up competition

Google has massively cut prices for its managed cloud machine learning service just two weeks after AWS released a competing offering at its re:Invent user conference. The company has introduced massive price reductions for its Cloud Machine Learning Engine managed services. For example, customers using basic-tier compute for training a machine learning system will pay 43 percent less than they did earlier this year. Google also offered customers more clarity on what they'll be paying for those jobs. Information of the price reductions was first included in a blog post that appeared briefly yesterday on Google's website, then vanished.