Compare Cloud Service Prices With New Tool
March 28, 2013
Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Charles Babcock.
Buffaloed by the task of figuring out which cloud provider offers the best deal? A free service called PlanForCloud.com will do it for you, incorporating 12,000 different pricing possibilities offered by six different cloud vendors. Just plug in the resources you plan to use and compare the results.
Launched in February 2012, PlanForCloud.com was acquired by RightScale in June. RightScale maintains it as a free service and updates it with the frequent price changes that occur in the cloud market. For example, PlanForCloud has captured 29 prices reductions in cloud services over the past 14 months. Amazon alone during that period announced eight core service price reductions — for servers, storage or network bandwidth — and 11 reductions on add-on services such as database, caching and messaging…
Rackspace, which entered the lists with low entry-level services, prides itself on customer service over price — but during the same period it has had four price reductions. Meanwhile, Microsoft’s Windows Azure and Google Compute Engine have both had three price drops. Some of these price cuts occur when major vendors react to each other’s moves, as they did last November at the end of Amazon.com’s Re:Invent show in Las Vegas. Google cut storage prices by 20% on Nov. 26. Amazon cut prices by 25% on Nov. 28, and Google cut another 10% on Nov. 29 to stay positioned just below the market leader. Windows Azure joined the spree on Dec. 5 when it cut its storage prices by 22%. Rackspace reduced its own storage prices by as much as 25% in February through its own tiered pricing plan…
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