Infrastructure as a Service Market is becoming increasingly competitive
- Leading Providers Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google
- Increased Price Competition for Basic Compute and Storage Services
Complexity in Instance Types and Pricing
- Virtual Machines are not a malleable resource
- CPU, Memory, and Disk capacities often do not align
- Customers are looking for simplified pricing and less cost confusion
Cloud Computing Market inspector and Pricing Applet
- Try me at https://gleamingstone.shinyapps.io/price-o-lator/
- Inspect Market Pricing as of November 15, 2014
- Use the Price-o-Lator Widget to Estimate the cost of a Virtual Machine
- View the source at https://github.com/cj-wilson/price-o-lator