Google and Amazon slug it out with SSD storage offerings for cloud servers

Grazed from V3.co.uk. Author: Daniel Robinson.

Cloud computing giants Google and Amazon have both unveiled new solid-state drive (SSD) block storage options for users of their respective virtual machine services, as the highly competitive cloud price war continues to heat up. Both Amazon and Google have announced new SSD-backed persistent storage options for their respective cloud server offerings, while Google has also added an HTTP Load Balancing feature.

Google said that the new SSD persistent disk product for its Compute Engine service sets a new bar for scalability and performance in Block Storage. It is charging users a flat fee of $0.325 per GB per month and supports up to 30 input/output operations per second (IOPS) per GB. Google also claimed on its Cloud Platform Blog that "while other providers count each and every IOPS and charge extra for them, SSD persistent disk includes IOPS in the base price with no extra charges or fees, making cost completely predictable and easy to model."…

However, Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced a new General Purpose SSD volume type that is now the default option for its Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) service. For this, customers pay $0.10 per GB per month, with no additional charges for I/O…

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