Cloud Wars on the horizon: Amazon wants customers to commit long-term
By Tarry Singh at 12 March, 2009, 12:09 pm
Nothing wrong though as Microsoft’s missed train on Virtualization is coming ten times harder with its Azure offerings.
Microsoft’s (MSFT) Azure cloud is launching sometime later this year. But Amazon (AMZN) isn’t letting the new entry into the cloud computing space go unchallenged — the company is today announcing “reserved instances”, guaranteed uptime and a price break if customers commit to Amazon’s cloud solution for a year or more.
We’ve learned that some of our customers have needs which aren’t addressed by the spot pricing model. For example, some of them were looking for even lower prices, and were willing to make a commitment ahead of time in order to achieve this. Also, quite a few customers actually told us something even more interesting: they were interested in using EC2 but needed to make sure that we would have a substantial number of instances available to them at any time in order for them to use EC2 in a DR (Disaster Recovery) scenario.
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