{"id":21426,"date":"2014-03-31T08:22:57","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T06:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=21426"},"modified":"2014-03-31T08:22:57","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T06:22:57","slug":"cloud-computing-price-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2014\/03\/31\/cloud-computing-price-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud computing price war"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Now this looks like a straight up war! \u00a0Less than a day apart, both Google and Amazon announced yet another price drop on their services. \u00a0TechCrunch<\/a> sums up Google’s price drop as following:<\/p>\n

Google Compute Engine is seeing a 32 percent reduction in prices across all regions, sizes and classes.\u00a0App Engine prices are down 30 percent, and the company is also simplifying its price structure.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

The price of cloud storage is dropping a whopping 68 percent to just $0.026\/month per gigabyte and $0.2\/month per gigabyte\/DRA.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

BigQuery, Google\u2019s database for doing big data analysis, is getting the largest price drop at 85 percent. The team reduced per-gigabyte storage pricing from $0.08\/GB to $0.026\/GB, a 68 percent drop, and interactive queries now cost $5\/TB instead of $35\/TB. Batch queries now also cost $5\/TB instead of the previous $20\/TB.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Amazon Web Services Blog<\/a> provides comparison tables between old and new prices, which are quite similar. \u00a0And they also notice the following:<\/p>\n

If you’ve been reading this blog for an extended period of time you know that we reduce prices on our services from time to time, and today\u2019s announcement serves as the 42nd price reduction since 2008<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Now this looks like a straight up war! \u00a0Less than a day apart, both Google and Amazon announced yet another price drop on their services. \u00a0TechCrunch sums up Google’s price drop as following: Google Compute Engine is seeing a 32 percent reduction in prices across all regions, sizes and classes.\u00a0App Engine prices are down 30 … Continue reading Cloud computing price war<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62],"tags":[42,3270,2366,2068],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-21426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","tag-amazon","tag-amazon-aws","tag-cloud-computing","tag-google"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t