Amazon: Hard luck Microsoft, AWS will always be cheaper Amazon’s struck back at Microsoft camp over its "lowering" of its cloud computing prices by touting Amazon’s track record for saving money. The etailer-turned-cloud-giant’s chief technology officer Werner Vogels yesterday claimed there had been 31 price reductions in AWS since the service went live in 2006 – seven years ago. …
"Of course, AWS can lock you in to Amazon by sheer volume of data: it’s easier and cheaper to upload data than to remove it. Once it’s there, you need big enough pipes to extract it - and you'll have to pay Amazon to do it."
This should not be forgotten. You should always have a current price pinned to the wall for bulk extraction of all your data through Amazon's 'Import/Export' service (http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/). If you can't afford to pay it on any given day, realise you are locked in.
Really, if you have any sense you will have an independent backup copy so no matter what your cloud provider does, or has done to them, you still have your data.
Though before you get to that stage, you should be asking serious questions about the security of all of your data in another company/country. No open client-side encryption? Then fsck off!
I love the fact that 330,000 customer recommendations would lead to $22M in savings. That works out at a massive $67 saving per customer and I presume per year. That is a drop in the ocean of other considerations like management, availability, performance etc. I'm not saying MS is better at these at all, just that the saving is small and probably not relevant versus other decisions!
Don't rely on Azure if you have IP to protect; you will lose it. I suspect highly, that there are insiders over there allowing many outside interests access to customers data in a way that should cause someone to be shot at sunrise! I have great disdain for what they are trying to do over there. Microsoft needs to wake-up to the customer's security needs, and quit putting its collective head in the sand.
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