Cloud Computing: CenturyLink Aims to Compete with Amazon on Price
May 5, 2014
Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.
Cloud computing prices for infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) continue to plummet. Maybe it’s an exaggeration, but it sometimes seems like Amazon Web Services (AWS) is hitting new pricing lows on a weekly basis, and other IaaS providers aren’t pulling any punches, either. So can other IaaS providers compete on price when Amazon (AMZN), Google Cloud (GOOG) and Microsoft Azure (MSFT) are on a constant pricing downslide?
CenturyLink (CTL), which has competed in the market largely through its previously named Savvis brand, thinks it can. Whereas others in the space, such as Rackspace (RAX), have chosen not to play the neverending game of cloud pricing limbo (how low can you go?), CenturyLink is poised to follow suit and fight the incumbents on what has become a common battleground—the almighty dollar…
Andrew Higginbotham, senior vice president of Cloud and Technology at CenturyLink, recently told research firm GigaOM that CenturyLink can and will compete with the likes of Amazon on pricing…
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