This week I decided to dive in to some of the pricing options of migrating to the cloud. As I already wrote an assignment on Amazon EC2 I decided to focus on Rackspace and Windows Azure. Some providers offer pay-as-you-go plans, monthly/yearly plans, or a combination. For the purposes of this blog I am focusing on Rackspace's Performance 1 plan and Window Azure's pay as you go plan.
Rackspace
Performance 1 plan - Best suited for web servers, batch processing, network appliances, small databases, and most general-purpose computing workloads. Rackspace has a minimum charge of $50 per month.
Benefits:
- High-performance, RAID 10-protected SSD storage
- Redundant 10-Gigabit networking
- From 1–8 vCPUs
Windows Azure
Pricing is based on the size of the VM, number of VMs, and number of users. To help companies calculate their estimated monthly cost, Azure offers a full pricing calculator.
Pay as you go benefits:
- Zero upfront, cancel anytime
- No long term commitment
- Up to 27% savings vs. Pay as You Go plan
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