ProfitBricks Cuts IaaS Prices, Claims Pricing Leadership

October 24, 2014 Off By David
Object Storage

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

ProfitBricks has slashed the price of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offerings and is claiming that it is winning the cloud price wars against its biggest competitor Amazon Web Services (AWS). For this volley in the cloud price wars, ProfitBricks has reduced its prices by 30 percent and "has doubled the price drop percentage of the industry leader in the last year," according to the vendor.

With this price cut, a cloud instance with two dedicated CPU cores, 7.5GB of RAM and 500GB of block storage is now $73.95 per month. That includes support. It’s the first big price cut from ProfitBricks in a year, when it challenged Amazon with a major price cut and claimed its pricing was 50 percent of its rival’s…

At the same time as it’s competing on price, ProfitBricks is also competing on price/performance, which it stated is better than what customers are getting at Amazon…

Read more from the source @ http://talkincloud.com/iaas/102314/profitbricks-cuts-iaas-prices-claims-pricing-leadership