Comments on: Cloud Computing Price Comparison

By: Jim Ziobro

Jim Ziobro — Mon, 24 Nov 2014 05:56:25 +0000

I signed up with cloudatcost.com last year (2013). They had some startup problems. My server was down for a week. However, I’ll sign with them again. If someone finds something cheaper I’d love to know!

By: James

James — Sun, 30 Mar 2014 19:16:09 +0000

Is there anyway you can update a new price comparison sheet? Been 5 years.

By: Terry Myers

Terry Myers — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 20:02:22 +0000

I realize this post is 3 years old now, however I’d be interested in having you do an updated comparison. We recently launched 8 new locations for a total of 21, and also introduced a welcome kit that, to an extent, addresses your $99 support fee concern.

By: Hassan

Hassan — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:35:00 +0000

Hi Mr Kirkland, I just came across this article!

I think thats a fair view point to costs – take a set budget and see whats the best you can get. We have recently released a Cloud Computing Price Comparison tool, its at http://www.ShopForCloud.com

The way we approached it is slightly different, we consider a system and all of its components (servers, databases, storage, data transfers and even additional costs which come from a specific deployment – e.g. software license for bring your own license AWS).
Then, this system (or deployment) is run though a simulation with the latest prices from the cloud providers to give a detailed cost report.

I’d be very interested in hearing your feedback on ShopForCloud.

Thanks,
Hassan Hosseini
ShopForCloud.com

By: reko

reko — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 10:41:29 +0000

Cloudorado - IaaS cloud computing comparison is a service which does exactly this - price comparison of multiple IaaS providers. You just enter resources you need and it gives you a list of prices from multiple cloud providers.

By: rodrigolabanca (Rodrigo Leal Labanca)

rodrigolabanca (Rodrigo Leal Labanca) — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 01:22:42 +0000

Comparação de preços entre serviços de computação em nuvem – http://www.mrkirkland.com/cloud-computing-price-comparison/

By: Daniel Berninger

Daniel Berninger — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 19:25:32 +0000

The key obstacle in assessing the cost of a cloud offer remains the lack of an industry wide measure of cloud processing capacity. We have GB for memory, TB for storage, and GB for bandwidth.

The Cloud Price Calculator (http://cloudpricecalculator.com) addresses this by adopting Amazon’s ECU as the compute metric at 1ECU = a 400 Passmark score.

Combining all the resources and dividing by price yields the Cloud Price Normalization index and a ranking of cloud offers. Interestingly, the ranking shows Amazon’s newer instances provide more value than the older ones as Amazon has rarely reduced prices after introducing an instance.

By: Cloud Computing Comparison

Cloud Computing Comparison — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:45:45 +0000

Mr Kirkland,

You could use Cloud Hypermarket to compare cloud services very easily.

By: Mr Kirkland

Mr Kirkland — Thu, 13 May 2010 15:20:22 +0000

For that price range and application, you’re probably in need of slice host, of the rackspace cloud hosting option

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 13 May 2010 14:06:38 +0000

Thanks, good research. I was wondering what the best deal is for less than $10? I’m looking for a scalable cloud for hosting standby (“warm failover”) sites for some of my customers. Just a place to keep a known-good copy of the code and latest database dumps, which can be quickly fired up and scaled to replace a downed/hacked site at another provider. The ideal price point for that would be $10 or less.