Amazon, Microsoft, and Google aren’t slashing cloud prices as fast and furious as they did two years ago, but there’s still plenty of smack talk going on.
For example, Google GOOG -0.10% on Friday took to its cloud blog to proclaim that its cloud computing service is less expensive than comparable Amazon AMZN 0.78% Web Services products.
MORE: On cloud price cuts.
To back up a bit, AWS trimmed prices 5% on Tuesday for some Elastic Compute Cloud instances, its 51st cost cut to date across all its services. Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is Amazon’s term for units of computing power that it sells or rents to customers. EC2 “instances” are the cloud equivalent of a computer’s central processing unit.
Three days later, Google pointed out that its most comparable custom machine types (Google’s term for cloud computing resources) remain 15% to 41% less expensive than Amazon’s latest price, depending on configuration. And, it provided a helpful comparison chart.
Of course this is a discussion that high-level executives may not care about, but the accountants in the chief information officer’s office need to keep an eye on cloud costs. Cloud usage is initially cheaper than buying a lot of hardware and software to run in-house, but hey it still costs money.
Read More: http://fortune.com/2016/01/08/google-amazon-cloud-price-war/
For example, Google GOOG -0.10% on Friday took to its cloud blog to proclaim that its cloud computing service is less expensive than comparable Amazon AMZN 0.78% Web Services products.
MORE: On cloud price cuts.
To back up a bit, AWS trimmed prices 5% on Tuesday for some Elastic Compute Cloud instances, its 51st cost cut to date across all its services. Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is Amazon’s term for units of computing power that it sells or rents to customers. EC2 “instances” are the cloud equivalent of a computer’s central processing unit.
Three days later, Google pointed out that its most comparable custom machine types (Google’s term for cloud computing resources) remain 15% to 41% less expensive than Amazon’s latest price, depending on configuration. And, it provided a helpful comparison chart.
Of course this is a discussion that high-level executives may not care about, but the accountants in the chief information officer’s office need to keep an eye on cloud costs. Cloud usage is initially cheaper than buying a lot of hardware and software to run in-house, but hey it still costs money.
Read More: http://fortune.com/2016/01/08/google-amazon-cloud-price-war/
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