Monday, January 2, 2017

Cloud wars: Amazon Web Services expands pricing API in new effort to show cost savings

The ability to choose from a wide range of computing and storage services is one of cloud computing’s big draws, but saving money is probably even a bigger motivator. #Amazon Web Services is trying to make this simpler by releasing an API providing pricing data for every #AWS service, rather than just for the 13 selected services for which a pricing API became available last December. Cloud pricing is dropping overall, and price-based competition among AWS, #MicrosoftAzure, #GoogleCloud and other public-cloud services is “only just getting started,” said Owen Rogers, research director of the digital economics unit at New York-based 451 Research and keeper of the closely watched Cloud Price Index, in comments this fall. Azure chief Scott Guthrie in September said Azure’s long-running price war with AWS was winding down, but in fact both Azure and AWS have since offered price cuts.

http://www.geekwire.com/2017/cloud-wars-amazon-web-services-expands-pricing-api-new-effort-show-cost-savings/

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