Google Cloud Platform adds options for custom virtual machines

Google's cloud department has been vocal in the past about its theories and strategies for lowering storage prices in the long run, and the Internet giant continued that rhetoric with a new debut on Wednesday. Google Cloud Platform is introducing the option of Custom Machine Types, which will allow IT professionals to fit virtual machines (VMs) to particular workloads rather than just rounding up to the next tier on the pricing scale.

"When choosing a virtual machine type, every major cloud provider forces you to overbuy; since VMs usually come in powers of two, you need to buy eight vCPUs, even when you only need six," argued Sami Iqram, a product manager for Google Cloud Platform, asserted in a blog post on Wednesday.

Custom Machine Types can start out small with one virtual CPU (vCPU) up to 32 by increments of even numbers.