{"id":10457,"date":"2014-03-27T00:31:53","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T00:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/mar\/27\/amazon-responds-google-youve-slashed-your-prices-now-heres-ours\/"},"modified":"2014-03-27T00:31:53","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T00:31:53","slug":"amazon-responds-to-google-youve-slashed-your-prices-now-heres-ours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/amazon-responds-to-google-youve-slashed-your-prices-now-heres-ours\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon responds to Google: You\u2019ve slashed your prices \u2013 now here\u2019s ours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon Web Services has announced big price cuts across its cloud computing portfolio at an event in San Francisco &ndash; one day after rival Google did the same.<\/p>\n<p>Andy Jassy, AWS senior vice president, explained to delegates in his keynote speech that lowering prices was &ldquo;not new&rdquo; for AWS, laying out the company&rsquo;s latest price drop.<\/p>\n<p>The facts: Amazon&rsquo;s S3 storage cloud gets a pricing tier decrease from 36% to 65%. M3 gets an average 38% decrease, while C3 gets 30% &#8211; these were Linux prices, although Jassy promised there would be &ldquo;comparable&rdquo; figures for Windows and other operating systems.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon&rsquo;s relational database services will get an average reduction of 28%, while Elasticache drops by 34% and Elastic MapReduce goes down by anywhere between 27% and 61%.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Lowering prices is not new for us &ndash; it&rsquo;s something we do on a regular basis,&rdquo; said Jassy. &ldquo;This is something we &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon Web Services has announced big price cuts across its cloud computing portfolio at an event in San Francisco &ndash; one day after rival Google did the same.<br \/>\nAndy Jassy, AWS senior vice president, explained to delegates in his keynote speech that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}