Microsoft public Cloud in China official commercial "tall" cloud computing price war

Microsoft, IBM, Aliyun and Amazon will start a cloud computing price war chart/Oriental IC

You may never have thought, "tall" cloud computing will also discount sales? Recently, Microsoft China announced the business of the Microsoft Azure Public cloud service, which is operated by the century Interconnection, which is the first public cloud service platform announced by the domestic international manufacturer to operate locally.

However, in the face of such a huge market in China, other manufacturers will certainly not let go. The reporter learned that Microsoft, Aliyun, IBM and Amazon are also staring at the Chinese market, in the cloud computing products to set off an unprecedented price war.

Microsoft Discounts on commercial side

Microsoft Azure has been reported to have made its first public preview since last May. Once only within 7 hours, more than 3,000 accounts were registered. More than 160 business users are or are about to be commercially available. The announcement of official business means that Microsoft's public cloud services are fully open to the enterprise-class user market, and large-scale market promotion, the previous commercial customers are mainly the invitation system. As early as the end of 2012, the Shanghai government, Microsoft and the Century interconnection have signed an agreement to operate the Azure platform in China. However, it took more than a year to wait until formal business was in place.

Recently, Microsoft has added 2000 free experience accounts and has been registered in just 15 minutes. "Microsoft's prospects need not be said," says Hele, Microsoft's senior vice president and chairman and chief executive of the Greater China region. "15 minutes to produce 2000 customers." "But that said, but under the pressure of the formidable rivals Amazon and Google, Microsoft has also played a discount sale."

Microsoft announced that, starting from May 1, to reduce the price of cloud computing products comprehensively: Computing resource leasing prices will be lowered by 27% to 35%. The price of cloud storage is lowered by 44% to 65%. In the future, Microsoft will perform different price levels, depending on the location of the cloud Computing data center. In the Asian region, for example, the price of a leased server processor is about 2 to 3 cents per hour after this price cut. Wang Wenbin, vice president of Alibaba Group, predicts that the annual price of cloud services will be reduced by at least 30%, and the price per three years is now 1/3-1/4.

Cloud computing will enter a new pattern

As the major IT giants of the cloud services continue to improve, the cloud computing market has entered the era of the warlords. In fact, now the public cloud market price war is very fierce. Google has announced a sharp downgrade of its cloud services offerings, with cloud servers, cloud storage and database services cut by 32%, 68% and 82% respectively.

Cloud computing boss Amazon this time also was forced to the corner, hastily announced its own price reduction plan, the average price of storage clothing fell 51%, large data services also reduce the price of 27% to 61% range. Aliyun database service again 15%, cloud storage maximum direct minus 42%, 11 of the ECS Cloud server up to 30% of the maximum.

It industry analyst Mu Grams says Moore's law in the IT era seems to be back to the cloud computing era, with performance doubling by one or half every 18 months. Last year, the global cloud computing market capacity, has reached 131 billion of dollars, the Giants are unwilling to let this cake.

"After Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Ali Cloud big price reduction, cloud computing this entire industry into a new pattern, from the oligarch sitting rich profits, into the fight-dimensional, supply chain, to see whose services and ecology better." These competitions will accelerate the change of IT industry, make cloud-oriented it ecology become more convenient and low price, benefit all enterprise users. Mu Grams said.

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)