Re:Amazon’s New Cloud Prices Show That Google Is Now a Threat
by jusben1369 on Thursday December 04, 2014 @11:18AM
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My biggest issue with the article is no mention of MSFT or Azure. MSFT is a public company and by all accounts their hosted business appears to be growing very rapidly. So to not even mention what they're doing and how AMZN would also be concerned about them as competition makes the article kind of weak.
Re:Amazon’s New Cloud Prices Show That Google Is Now a Threat
by silverbax88 on Thursday December 04, 2014 @11:33AM
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Azure is growing like mad, and in most corporations it's listed as 'AWS', 'Azure' and 'everyone else' when discussing the cloud. I've had multiple meetings where I was the only person who'd even heard that Google had an option...RackSpace comes up more often than Google. This article is pretty clearly paid for by Google, in a battle that they are really late in arriving to.
And given Google's reputation for support (fully warranted in my experience), it's going to take a lot for corporations to shift away from AWS. It's actually astounding how much market share Azure has gotten already in spite of AWS.
Re:Amazon’s New Cloud Prices Show That Google Is Now a Threat
by imanaccount247 on Thursday December 04, 2014 @02:13PM
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Your experience is not universal. Every single person I've talked to their company is deciding between amazon and google. Neither MS nor rackspace even come up.
Re:Amazon’s New Cloud Prices Show That Google Is Now a Threat
by silverbax88 on Friday December 05, 2014 @08:44AM
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I didn't say my experience was universal.
In my experience the only times I've heard Google mentioned by companies as an option are small start ups.
Re:Amazon’s New Cloud Prices Show That Google Is Now a Threat
by jpatokal on Thursday December 04, 2014 @01:54PM
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I read that as saying that they work for a company that works with Amazon. Admittedly "the cloud company" is ambiguous, but I'd identify those three words with Amazon, not Google.
>> “Google is making a dent and AWS is starting to feel the pain from a pricing perspective,”
>But they didn't announce a price reduction this week!
Uh, they announced a change related to pricing, not a reduction: http://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/simplified-reserved-instance...
>> says one ex-Amazon employee who asked not to be identified because his current employer works with the cloud company.
>Because they work for Google. Because this is a paid Google advert.
They don't work for Google. They work for a company that works with Google. That could be one of thousands (?) that are hosted on Compute Engine.