Google Announces Massive Price Drops for Cloud Computing Services, Storage
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Google Announces Massive Price Drops for Cloud Computing Services, Storage
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Re: Google Announces Massive Price Drops for Cloud Computing Services, Storage
#2From @clstokes
With today’s Google Cloud price cuts: - an n1-standard-1 on #GCE is $ $35.38/month - an m3.medium on #AWS is $82.72/month
Re: Google Announces Massive Price Drops for Cloud Computing Services, Storage
#3Its an interesting choice of battlegrounds. I find the infrastructure vs infrastructure wars fascinating by how Google and Amazon invested in them for their own businesses and are now productizing the 'remainders' and getting less and less for it.
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#4"Prices are effective April 1, 2014". Unfortunate date for such unbelievable price drops.
Re: Google Announces Massive Price Drops for Cloud Computing Services, Storage
#5Its an interesting choice of battlegrounds. I find the infrastructure vs infrastructure wars fascinating by how Google and Amazon invested in them for their own businesses and are now productizing the 'remainders' and getting less and less for it.
>Google and Amazon invested in them for their own businesses and are now productizing the 'remainders' and getting less and less for it.
Are the prices dropping faster than moore's law? The costs are dropping approximately with moore's law.
Edit: the interesting bit here is just how you lower your prices. In the VPS market, it is traditional to keep charging your customers the same, and to just give them more ram/cpu/disk/network. This is way easier on the bottom line, as your revenue doesn't fall (by much. Most people won't bother changing to a smaller plan, some will.) - in the "cloud" the tradition is a bit more consumer-friendly; the tradition is to just cut the price and hope the consumer will buy more.
Re: Google Announces Massive Price Drops for Cloud Computing Services, Storage
#6Its an interesting choice of battlegrounds. I find the infrastructure vs infrastructure wars fascinating by how Google and Amazon invested in them for their own businesses and are now productizing the 'remainders' and getting less and less for it.
> Google and Amazon invested in them for their own businesses and are now productizing the 'remainders'
This is a myth. Both companies created their infrastructure businesses as separate entities by leveraging their datacenter expertise, but they were not 'remainders'.
Re: Google Announces Massive Price Drops for Cloud Computing Services, Storage
#7Oh Boy ! This is quite a steep decrease.. So if I am reading it reading right, this makes S3 ~300 percent more expensive ( 2.6 vs 8.5 ).
Sounded more like a April 1 hoax ad to me at first ( too good to be true ). It will be also interesting to see how much this drives down S3 prices.
Re: Google Announces Massive Price Drops for Cloud Computing Services, Storage
#8From @clstokes With today’s Google Cloud price cuts: - an n1-standard-1 on #GCE is $ $35.38/month - an m3.medium on #AWS is $82.72/month
Digital Ocean is still cheaper.
Amazing how competition works.
Re: Google Announces Massive Price Drops for Cloud Computing Services, Storage
#9"Prices are effective April 1, 2014". Unfortunate date for such unbelievable price drops.
I think that's a standard Google thing. They announced Gmail (and the then insane 1GB free storage) on 1 April too.
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#10From @clstokes With today’s Google Cloud price cuts: - an n1-standard-1 on #GCE is $ $35.38/month - an m3.medium on #AWS is $82.72/month
I don't like having to commit to an entire year, but reserving that m3.medium brings the price down considerably.
Hopefully AWS will take a look at Google's automatic cuts and think long and hard about it. We're using AWS, but reservations are a constant point of friction for us.