Qingyun: Lower prices are expected, but the era of cloud service price wars

Azure and Google Cloud Platform also followed a price cut following the announcement that the market's undisputed leader, AWS, announced a price cut in April. In the domestic view, the price of the information pouring Aliyun since needless to say, Qingyun (Qingcloud) Price also unavoidably be zoned "price war" camp. But they believe that the current domestic cloud services market development maturity, is far from the era of price war should be.

"The price is expected, but the timing is unexpected."

From Qingyun's point of view, this time the price reduction in their plans, only the timing node in the unexpected. Here is expected to have two factors inside and outside: first half to Qingyun users and business scale growth exceeded their expectations, followed by the expansion of the server; the second is the arrival of the price, the domestic and foreign cloud services to reduce prices, leading to their own into the price war queue.

As we have reported before, Qingyun implements the server operation of human intervention through Peer-to-peer robotics community. Compared to the traditional cloud service providers, the marginal cost of increasing the number of servers is almost equal to the cost of hardware. As business grows, the increase in the number of servers in Beijing and Guangdong is a direct cause of the price cut.

"The future of IaaS will certainly enter the price war, but not now"

In Qingyun's view, IaaS in the market education and technical level to a certain extent, will inevitably enter the era of price warfare. "But not now. "The biggest difference between cloud computing and traditional local servers is resilience, which is inherently close to the traditional local server provider without SaaS or further expansion into PaaS, with a professional breakdown." Qingyun believes that the current domestic cloud services in terms of flexibility, performance and security are not satisfied with the real demand for cloud computing enterprises. At this stage, through the price to choose cloud computing service providers are mostly the trial stage, the budget is very low, there is no perfect service testing system. The elasticity and operation of cloud computing determines its cost advantage over the traditional server, Qingyun believes that when the cloud computing technology through the development of a real hard demand, enterprise technicians can also be tailored to the specific requirements of the corresponding perfect service testing process, will really enter the stage of relying on price for market.

PaaS is the goal.

Qingyun has been advertised as a "second level response" Flex service is not a small cost savings for traffic-sensitive or user-variable gradients. Because Qingyun opened its own service API, there are online shop customers through the application of API program to achieve automatic service resource adjustment. Next, Qingyun will launch a autoscaling like AWS and Azure to make it easier for users to deploy resources flexibly. In addition, there are new features such as object storage and relational layer output. "Because of our ' 0 intervention ' technology, the bigger the future, the lower our cost," said Lea Liu, head of Qingyun brand. But IaaS services are very basic, and we will continue to position ourselves on the basis of basic services and strive to truly implement PaaS from the technical level.

The four quarter will start to expand the North American market. According to Lea, AWS's years of deep ploughing have made North America a full-fledged cloud-computing market. Users in the North American market are more rational and targeted to choose cloud computing services based on their own needs, and they believe North American users can better understand their technical strengths in resilience and security.