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1. Microsoft Slashed Amazon— $ .02 Price Cuts
Microsoft efforts and its commitment towards Cloud is an open secret, still company is hunting
for cloud customers. They just half down the prices for entry-level server. Price was set to $ .05
and they decreased with marginal difference of $ .02 per hour for Servers running Windows OS.
Amazon was charging $ .02 for its Web Services Linux server and now Microsoft announced to
charge $ .02 for its Windows based Servers. Looks like Microsoft is aggressively responding to
Amazon EC2 prices. Windows is dominating over Linux servers in the Cloud. Windows can drop
its cost to anything, for more users in cloud.
Microsoft Azure server, offering small unit at $ .12 per hour at entry level Windows based
server. The only difference is virtual CPU power, Amazon defines its ECU (Elastic Cloud Unit)
equivalent of 1 to 1.2 GHz of Xeon core and Azure virtual CPU would be equivalent of 1.6 GHz
Xeon.
There are some other marginal differences discussed below.
Amazon Micro Server:
It has only 613 MB of RAM
Access to Elastic Block Store Service
On Local disk Amazon offer 1.7 GB of RAM and 160 GB of Disk Storage
Microsoft:
It has 768 MB of RAM
Plus 20 GB of Disk Storage.
On local disk Microsoft offers 1.75 GB of RAM with 255 GB of hard disk storage.
These figures indicate, Amazon is setting the price at standards and is close to demand oriented
instances whilst Microsoft offers something bigger, yet out of box too. In addition to it
Microsoft has decreased its preset price of $ 14 to $ 125 to 12 %, a gigabyte per month. For
initial 49 gigabytes of long storage, both Amazon and Microsoft are offering same prices.
Microsoft is throughout consistent in pricing and its much difficult to beat company as Amazon
prices vary in regions. Price list displayed by Microsoft is simple with only few options. Indeed
Microsoft is working to provide simpler price list to its users. Also company has reduced its
Azure-based pricelist for its SQL Azure in last month with an option of using 100 MB database
only at $ 5 per month which is 50 percent down to its previous cost. This way, customers can
enjoy savings from 48 % to 75 % on larger database. Google as well is reducing prices and all
2. cloud suppliers can better understand better processing speed and storage capacity. So, there
is much competition in Cloud market and consumers can expect more costs cuts in future .
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