Let's translate this..
Google says it's been able to drop the price of such VMs because its cloud has grown and it's become more efficient at identifying resources it can toss into the preemptive pool.
Yes, that's what they would say, but if we take that statement at face value it suggests that Google is less bothered about the reliability of what it tosses in that pool.
I read this different, however, because the real driver behind the price cuts is in my opinion an attempt to rob the competition of income - a classic strategy that suggests once again that Google is following the Microsoft playbook pretty much to the letter, and which predicts price rises as soon as they have reached a sufficient volume of lock in (think Microsoft in education if you need any idea how that works).
In that context I'd be interested to see if Google is better at avoiding accusations of cross subsidy than Microsoft - time will tell.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
