The one thing missing from Amazon’s big cloud conference
November 25, 2014
Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Brandon Butler.
When Amazon Web Services has a big press or customer event, the company usually has one staple that it announces: Price cuts. Such was not the case earlier this month at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, the third-annual installation of the company’s big cloud conference. So what’s going on here? Have the prices in the cloud market stabilized?
Or is AWS attempting to be rise above the fray of other cloud providers who are undercutting the market leader on price? We asked AWS and they did not respond. But, analysts say while price is important, it’s not the end all for users deciding whether to use the cloud or not. About a year ago the cloud price wars in the IaaS cloud computing market were at their height…
AWS was seemingly cutting prices every few weeks. Google would follow. Microsoft announced a strategy that it would match any AWS price cut on core cloud services. There was a race to the bottom…
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