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Well so far MSFT and GOOG are regularly slashing prices to keep up with AMZN's price cuts. So we're in the price war stage still, not much at the differentiati
by frandroid 10y ago
Well so far MSFT and GOOG are regularly slashing prices to keep up with AMZN's price cuts. So we're in the price war stage still, not much at the differentiation stage.
- mason55 10y ago> So we're in the price war stage still, not much at the differentiation stage. Depends what you're looking for I suppose. If all you need is basic compute instances then, yes, it's a price war. Any products beyond that have a tenuous relationship between the different providers. Even something as simple as using a columnar DB pretty much locks you into one of the providers because you have to build around all the nuances of SQL Server vs. RedShift (Postgres) vs. BigQuery. Forget talking about things like infrastructure automation once you're trying to manage this on demand across many environments in a reproducible way.
- boulos 10y agoThis isn't correct. Amazon has not matched our May 2015 price cut for GCE (they instead have tossed a couple 5% cuts). They responded to our 2014 cut a day later. We saw a similar reaction with Nearline last year; a few months later they introduced S3 Infrequent Access, but it has plenty of caveats (rounding up to 128 KB per object) and still a 25% higher price per byte. In the meantime we introduced custom shapes for GCE giving our customers a measured 20% savings. Finally, even Microsoft has per-minute billing. If you're looking for the best price/performance you'll have to come to Google Cloud. Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud, so of course I want your business ;)
- bitmapbrother 10y agoYou have it backwards. It's Google that's slashing prices. The others are begrudgingly reacting.