Highlights via Twitter, mostly <a href="https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower</a> . Like with any pres. like this, a lot is in the details and you're likely to get more juice out of docs than the slides, and an added disclaimer that I haven't been using GCE and some of this may be old stuff they just talked about today, not actual new hotness.<p>- moar price cuts (notably, network SSD storage price roughly /= 2): <a href="https://twitter.com/googlecloud/status/529684624747032576" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/googlecloud/status/529684624747032576</a><p>- faster local SSD access for 21 cents/gig/month. <a href="https://cloud.google.com/pricing/" rel="nofollow">https://cloud.google.com/pricing/</a> (search for "Local SSD")<p>- AWS-style "Autoscaler". <a href="https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/autoscaler/v1beta2/" rel="nofollow">https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/autoscaler/v1beta2/</a> (They tried to demo activating an autoscaling group by voice. Didn't work. The first rule of demos is never ever rely on voice recognition in a demo.)<p>- "Container Engine" to simplify deploying Docker images to your VMs--still your VMs, not some kind of container-hosting-replacing-virtual-hosting situation. It's alpha--open but no SLA or pricing yet (free for now). <a href="https://cloud.google.com/container-engine/" rel="nofollow">https://cloud.google.com/container-engine/</a><p>- They name-dropped that Netflix is using GCE as well as EC2, and that they're integrating Firebase into GCE.