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Google Drops Pricing On Cloud Storage by 20%
- stephengillie 14y agoIs this a reactionary move in response to Amazon's new service and lower S3 pricing?
- ChuckMcM 14y agoOne would assume now that they are priced nearly identically.
- stephengillie 14y agoAny economist would. Could Google be leveraging their grasp of the world's free information to predict their competitors' pricing changes?
- skinnyarms 14y agoAccording to the re:Invent keynote Amazon has dropped aws prices 20+ times over it's 6.5 year lifespan. Google doesn't need to tap into it's records to know Amazon is playing the high volume\low margin game. Edit: typo
- mtgx 14y agoThis could be a signal they want to send to Amazon, too "every time you cut your prices, we will, too, and that will just be bad for both of us".
- digeridoo 14y agoIf doing it two days earlier can be considered reactionary...
- saurik 14y agoThat doesn't provide causation; you don't wake up on Tuesday, see a price change from Google on Monday, and change the keynote you are giving on Wednesday to rush through a price drop. If anything, it makes more sense to think that Google got word of the things Amazon was announcing at their conference a few weeks ago, and after some careful thought decided to jump Amazon's announcement so that they wouldn't look expensive.
- asdfologist 14y agoHis comment doesn't imply that causation happened in either direction.
- saurik 14y agoI am not certain how to read the comment other than "it isn't possible for it to be reactionary as it happened first", which I believe I corrected (but maybe, as I demonstrated a stronger conjecture in addition, that doesn't count?).
- hosay123 14y agoIt seems Google's sole contribution to the PAAS wars is to keep Amazon's pricing in check. Does anyone here actually use Compute Engine? With Google's customer support story, I couldn't touch it with a barge pole. I was an early convert to App Engine, ran screaming from that mess after 2 years of waiting to see the light, there was no light.
- IheartApplesDix 14y agoApparently a lot of people are embracing CE, personally, I'd rather not participate in their second-stage beta trial.
- sjg007 14y agothere is also deamhost and dreamcompute.
- daniel-cussen 14y agoYeah? Like who?
- IheartApplesDix 14y agoLike everyone who wants to pay slightly less for cloud drives?
- rgarcia 14y agoThe competition Google is putting up in this space reminds me of a Ben Horowitz quote from Startup School (paraphrased): You have to have a 10x better product to beat established competition. Compute Engine has a long way to go to be 10x better than AWS. For most (including me) it's not just about storage and CPU units, it's things like VPC, SES, IAM, etc.
- oh_sigh 14y agoTheir competition looks even less stellar when you see that amazon just dropped their storage prices by 25%
- jtchang 14y agoDoes anyone else have a bad taste in their mouth from Google App Engine and as such is wary of using Google services over Amazon? It is probably irrational since App Engine has come a long way but I remember how Google generally treated their customers early on who were trying to adopt to their platform.
- bane 14y agoYou mean the completely arbitrary several thousand percent price hike with still absolutely no customer service and multi-week turn around times when you can report issues? No...no bad taste at all.
- gecko 14y agoThe bigger complaint I've got with App Engine, which I don't have with this, is that it's complete lock-in. If I write my app against Heroku, I can pick up and move to AWS, Rackspace, Azure, or even a local cloud such as vSphere, VMware Fusion, or Hyper-V, quite easily. That's because the PostgreSQL/Unicorn/Redis/whatever that's on Heroku is the same as what I can run on any of those other services. Even if I use Microsoft's technologies, it's generally not that hard to move form a pure Windows stack to a Mono/PostgreSQL one these days. That's not true for App Engine. Their database engine exists nowhere else. Their general web stack exists nowhere else. Yes, I know about Appscale, but it hasn't been updated in forever, and empirically, I don't think that HBase's performance is a real replacement for Google's data storage. As a result, if Google radically alters their pricing--as they've done before--then you just have to shut up and take it. I don't want that kind of lock-in, no matter how awesome the product is.