{"id":4873,"date":"2012-11-29T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2465289"},"modified":"2012-11-29T20:30:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T20:30:00","slug":"cloud-computing-aws-slashes-s3-prices-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloud-computing-aws-slashes-s3-prices-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Computing: AWS Slashes S3 Prices 25%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To keep its cloud at the fore, Amazon Web Services has dropped the price of its S3 storage by roughly 25% across-the-board.<br \/>\nThe new prices take effect December 1 in all regions.<br \/>\nBy Amazon\u2019s count that\u2019s its 23rd price cut since 2006, \u201clargely in the absence of any competitive pressure to do so.\u201d<br \/>\nAmazon and Google have both cut prices on infrastructure services recently and, according to ReadWrite, are locked in a price war along with Microsoft.<br \/>\nAWS chief Andy Jassy puts the move down to demand begetting lower prices by virtue of economies of scale on the infrastructure. Anyway, it suits Amazon high-volume low-cost model and, according to the company, represents a challenge to traditional vendors who don\u2019t understand the cloud business and are busy selling cloudwash.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2465289\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To keep its cloud at the fore, Amazon Web Services has dropped the price of its S3 storage by roughly 25% across-the-board.<br \/>\nThe new prices take effect December 1 in all regions.<br \/>\nBy Amazon\u2019s count that\u2019s its 23rd price cut since 2006, \u201clargely i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4873","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}