… at the very least if you spend more than $150 a month, i.e. on a real application, based on the pricing information available to compare today.
Comparing GoGrid pricing details (on the Business Cloud pre-paid plan) to those for Azure:
- For Storage, capacity prices are the same but GoGrid provides 10GB free.
- For Compute, GoGrid is $0.12 per GB-hour as is Azure, but Azure doesn’t specify GBs of RAM, just hours so it’s hard to compare the detail. GoGrid moves to just $0.10 or $0.08 per GB-hour on higher plans.
- For Data in/out GoGrid is $0.25 (or $0.20/$0.17 on higher plans) out and FREE in, whereas Azue if $0.15 out + $0.10 in.
Microsoft says it will offer discounts for partners and plan at launch, i.e. still not information available to properly compare.
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