Comments on: Bringing comparison shopping to the cloud http://gigaom.com/2013/01/11/bringing-comparison-shopping-to-the-cloud/ Wed, 22 May 2013 18:56:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Barb Darrow http://gigaom.com/2013/01/11/bringing-comparison-shopping-to-the-cloud/#comment-1297679 Fri, 11 Jan 2013 19:01:03 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=600971#comment-1297679 this is more than a screenscrape, right Ed? You get updated price info from all the providers in short time increments???

]]> By: eapbyrne http://gigaom.com/2013/01/11/bringing-comparison-shopping-to-the-cloud/#comment-1297504 Fri, 11 Jan 2013 13:46:00 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=600971#comment-1297504 People have always compared IT hardware – regardless of whatever wonderful ‘unique performance features’ HP or IBM or Dell were pitching. The IT Manager would get quotes and pick the cheapest based on high level paper comparisons.

The Cloud is no different. Yes the underlying hardware varies – but we also know all AWS instances are not created equal either. Ideally the 6Fusion model of a ‘Work Allocation Cube’ would become a standard comparison, but until we have that utopia, Cloud buyers want comparisons.

We get asked every single day ‘how much is an 2 CPU / 4GB instance on AWS for a month, in Europe? How much is it in the US? How much would it be on Azure or Rackspace?’. So we put this little tool together to help everyone who does the ‘back of the envelope’ calculations.

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