Competition, Rapid Product Innovation Drive Down Enterprise Cloud Costs
January 13, 2016
Grazed from TheWhir. Author: Chris Burt.
The price of enterprise cloud computing services has dropped by two-thirds since 2013, but is starting to stabilize, according to a report released Monday by Tariff Consulting Ltd (TCL). The Pricing the Cloud 2 – 2016 to 2020 report puts the cost of entry-level cloud instances at about 12 cents an hour with Windows OS.
The report follows up a 2014 report, with research running through November 2015. It surveys published prices for more than 20 public cloud providers among 45 companies considered worldwide, and breaks down into public and private clouds, with the pricing categories pay as you go, hybrid, and private…
Furious competition in public cloud price and “rapid product innovation” are driving cloud prices down, and TCL counts over 500 product features launched since 2008 by AWS, which is the largest provider, with one quarter of the IaaS market. AWS also made its 51st price cut just a week ago…
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