Cloud Technology Gets Cheaper, but at What Cost?
December 1, 2012
Grazed from Midsize Insider. Author: Bob Prince Alo.
Amazon has dropped prices on its popular cloud database servers and added a range of rentable hardware that customers can use to host cloud technology and related platforms. The cloud computing juggernaut lost some popularity in the wake of power outages that received its fair share of media coverage earlier this year. Amazon hopes to regain its market share by reducing prices and expanding product lines.
Amazon’s price cuts comes amid a backdrop of increasingly steep competition from other cloud vendors like Microsoft and Oracle. Lower prices and diversified cloud products attract many small and midsize firms to cloud solutions…
Price Cuts and Expanding Shelves
ZDNet reports the prices of Amazon’s Rational Database Service (RDS) and ElasticCache have fallen by 8 to 14 percent in the US West (Oregon) and US East (Northern Virginia) data hubs. The RDS technology enables developers to host Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, and Oracle databases, and the ElasticCache add-on makes it easy to deploy, manage and scale distributed memory cache environments in Amazon’s cloud. Amazon has also expanded the range of its hardware platform to host the RDS technology by adding medium, large, and double-extra-large instances, with RAM ranging from 3.75 to 15 GB…
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