Cloud fight! Rackspace disputes Amazon’s dedicated instance claims
July 17, 2013
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.
Rackspace thinks Amazon Web Services drastically overplays its claims for dedicated instance price cuts (and for its dedicated instances in general.) Specifically, Rackspace CTO John Engates notes that, unlike you-know-who, Rackspace doesn’t charge a separate fee for every region where a dedicated server runs. And, in a blog post, he contends that AWS defines dedicated computing differently than the rest of the world.
Given Amazon’s sheer size, competitors watch its every move like a hawk. These rivals, which include Rackspace, HP, Microsoft and others — want to wrest more of that public cloud business for themselves. And most of them also tout private cloud capabilities that make their offerings more enterprise-worthy than AWS — a claim that AWS heartily contests…
But getting back to dedicated instances, Engates maintains that AWS EC2 dedicated instances are not the same as true dedicated, bare metal servers. Rackspace’s dedicated servers are, he writes, “completely isolated from the public cloud and run on your own hardware with your own network, and you have your own storage.”…
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