Google has kicked off a cloud price-cutting war with Amazon Web Services, which is a turn of events that doesn’t seem to bode well for small cloud providers that will have a hard time keeping up on price, features and scale.
About a year ago, I wrote a post comparing cloud computing providers to fast-food chains. I called Amazon Web Services the McDonald’s of the cloud, Rackspacethe Wendy’s and Google — in a close third place — the Burger King. Since then, Google has been steadily creeping up on Rackspace and, on Tuesday, it blew the doors off with massive price cuts, progressive pricing models, and new features that firmly established Google as a visionary and AWS’s primary competition.
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