{"id":10488,"date":"2014-04-01T23:34:35","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T23:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/apr\/02\/after-google-and-amazon-slash-their-cloud-prices-microsoft-follows-suit\/"},"modified":"2014-04-01T23:34:35","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T23:34:35","slug":"after-google-and-amazon-slash-their-cloud-prices-microsoft-follows-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/after-google-and-amazon-slash-their-cloud-prices-microsoft-follows-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"After Google and Amazon slash their cloud prices, Microsoft follows suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has announced price cuts on its compute facility by up to 35% and its storage by up to 65%, days after Google and Amazon Web Services did likewise.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps this is the least surprising news of the year &ndash; Amazon&rsquo;s price cuts being the second least surprising. That said, everyone suspected Redmond&rsquo;s cloud announcement wasn&rsquo;t going to be just renaming Windows Azure to Microsoft Azure.<\/p>\n<p>In a blog post, Azure general manager Stephen Martin outlined the price changes yet added there were two other key factors at play; innovation and quality.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Innovation and quality will prove far more important than commoditisation of compute and storage,&rdquo; he wrote. &ldquo;Vendors will ultimately extol their track records for building and running services far more than their prices and SLAs.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, even if the prices aren&rsquo;t that important they&rsquo;re being outlined here, being handily compared to the AWS stable &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has announced price cuts on its compute facility by up to 35% and its storage by up to 65%, days after Google and Amazon Web Services did likewise.<br \/>\nPerhaps this is the least surprising news of the year &ndash; Amazon&rsquo;s price cuts being &#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-10488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10488","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=10488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}