Google today brought out its Cloud Security Scanner service for finding potential security issues into general availability — for free. The tool came out in beta back in February.

The timing is the interesting part. Google published its blog post on the news less than one hour after Amazon Web Services, the biggest public cloud and the No. 1 competitor of the Google Cloud Platform, announced the release of Inspector, a cloud service that automatically looks for security and compliance issues based on input from an admin.

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