Amazon cuts cloud storage prices, Microsoft immediately follows suit
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Re: Amazon cuts cloud storage prices, Microsoft immediately follows suit
#2Looks like amazon might be afraid that Dropbox has plans to potentially build their own server infrastructure.
Re: Amazon cuts cloud storage prices, Microsoft immediately follows suit
#3I wish Microsoft would hurry up and open their Australian regions [1]. The government department we work with "does not support the storage of information ... outside Australia [2]".
[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/12/microsofts_australia...
[2] http://docs.education.gov.au/system/files/doc/other/policy_o... (page 3)
Re: Amazon cuts cloud storage prices, Microsoft immediately follows suit
#4Looks like amazon might be afraid that Dropbox has plans to potentially build their own server infrastructure.
Dropbox does not pay the amounts advertised on Amazon's website, you can be sure of that :)
Re: Amazon cuts cloud storage prices, Microsoft immediately follows suit
#5I love this sort commoditization and competition.
Re: Amazon cuts cloud storage prices, Microsoft immediately follows suit
#6I kind of like Azure and its management portal that makes it easy to setup and manage all their services, but I find the costs to be too high.
An Extra small VM (1GHz CPU, 768MB RAM) runs at US$15/month without considering the additional cost of data transfer, storage transactions and storage cost.
Compare that to DigitalOcean with their US$5/month for their equivalent offering.
What draws me to Azure is the fact that MS have datacenters where I live.
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#8Does anyone know if Microsoft's Blob Storage can be used for static web site hosting like Amazon's S3 can be? I'm talking about the full experience that S3 offers. That includes selecting the index page filename, and the DNS support so that naked domains (like example.com) can be used directly instead of having to use a CNAME (like for www.example.com) and some redirection service for the naked domain. Azure's support for this was not very good at all the last time I looked and the information available about it today is outdated by several years or isn't encouraging.
Re: Amazon cuts cloud storage prices, Microsoft immediately follows suit
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Dropbox does not pay the amounts advertised on Amazon's website, you can be sure of that :)
is that based on a hunch or is there a source for that? (or similar precedent)
It's not so much a hunch as it is common sense. When you subscribe to a service for hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars per month, then you can be certain that if you call them for a discount, they will pick up, and do business with you.