back to article Google vs. AWS race to the bottom detours into Super SSD Spring Sale

Over the last year or so, Google, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft's Azure have delighted in pointing out that they do just what the other guy does, only cheaper. So even while IOPs, CPU speeds, volume sizes and other metrics have gone up, the big cloud players have made a point of also taking their prices down. Until, …

  1. Robert Helpmann??
    Childcatcher

    What's the big deal?

    Google's decided that for a month from April 21st, its Local SSD offering “will be priced at $0.055/GB/month, a 75% discount. After that time, the price will return to its normal $0.218/GB/month.”

    Not sure how this would benefit anyone if they could own the SSD outright in very few months for what Google normally charges for rental.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: What's the big deal?

      They would still have to pay for installation, space in a data centre and electricity, though.

    2. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: What's the big deal?

      Because the asset is relatively small part of the cost of a data centre / data service?

  2. ZSn

    linode

    But are these offers really that cheap? Linide and others offer that for about the same price overall all the time (ok I'm comparing apples and oranges but you get the idea)

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