Cloud Computing Prices Begin to Streamline
October 4, 2012
Grazed from UCS. Author: Editorial Staff.
As vendors compete for enterprise IT workloads, once-dwindling cloud computing prices are now beginning to streamline. Windows Azure cloud services of Microsoft is the latest vendor to update its pricing program, now allowing users to make a monthly commitment to receive large discounts regardless of what services they use.
It was reported in June of this year that Microsoft is watching the Windows developer community migrate to the cloud, but not however, to its very own Azure cloud. It is evident that Microsoft is continuing to seek out entry-level customers and developers, and streamlining its cloud pricing is one way of attracting these new users. Most cloud services are priced on services used, such as storage, RAM and CPU, but Microsoft Azure provides a price dependent on monthly commitment and the amount of money the user agrees to spend…
As an example, a discount of 20 percent from regular Azure pricing will be given to those users committed to spend $500 to $14,999 monthly; a 23 percent discount will be given to those agreeing to spend $15,000 to $39,999 each month; and a 27 percent discount will be given to users committing to spend $40,000 and above per month. Azure’s original terms will kick in if users spend more than stated in the agreement…
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