{"id":7003,"date":"2013-04-16T20:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T20:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2619306"},"modified":"2013-04-16T20:36:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T20:36:00","slug":"azure-goes-dollar-to-dollar-with-aws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/azure-goes-dollar-to-dollar-with-aws\/","title":{"rendered":"Azure Goes Dollar-to-Dollar with AWS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Windows Azure got into the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) business Tuesday when a hungry Microsoft took on Amazon Web Services, vowing to match its pricing on \u201ccommodity services\u201d such as compute, storage and bandwidth despite Amazon\u2019s habitual price cutting.<br \/>\nTo start, Microsoft will cut prices on its IaaS and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) virtual machines by 21%-33%.<br \/>\nMicrosoft also said that, \u201cRegardless of how you choose to buy Windows Azure, you\u2019ll get the benefit of this price reduction.\u201d<br \/>\nFor a six- or 12-month spending commitment Microsoft will discount the standard pay-as-you-go rates. The discount applies to any Azure resource the user buys so he can tinker with deployment sizes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2619306\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows Azure got into the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) business Tuesday when a hungry Microsoft took on Amazon Web Services, vowing to match its pricing on \u201ccommodity services\u201d such as compute, storage and bandwidth despite Amazon\u2019s habitu&#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-7003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7003","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=7003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}