By CodeJustin
via ophion.org
Published: Jul 15 2009 / 22:51
Buried in today’s news of Microsoft’s pricing scheme for their cloud service, aka Azures, is some amazing insight into their own IT infrastructure costs.
Before we continue, I suggest you go here and become vaguely familiar with Azure’s pricing structure.
Now that you are back, the most important number to look for in their pricing scheme is the overall cost of a running a CPU for a full hour (commonly known as cpu/hr) which, in the cloud age in we live in, is the common currency of all providers. Microsoft clocks in at 12 cents per cpu/hr. That is very important since it gives you a fair ratio by which to compare providers and how efficiently they are at running their IT departments.
Comments
wekempf replied ago:
Microsoft didn't admit to anything. The blog post is based on VERY shoddy analysis of costs, which don't reveal ANY meaningful information. IOW, this is spin doctoring.
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