Monthly spend for this group of users is 100 users x $25 per virtual desktop for a total of $2,500 per month.įor the second group of 10 part-time users, you select a Linux Power Bundle with 4 vCPU, 16 GB memory, 80 GB root volume, 10 GB user volume, and hourly metering. With the monthly subscription option, users have unlimited access to their virtual desktops. The first group of 100 users requires the monthly subscription option because they will use WorkSpaces as their full-time desktop for general productivity, while the second group of 10 users is better suited to hourly metering as they require occasional access to higher-performance machines.įor the first group of 100 users, you select the Windows Value Bundle with 1vCPU, 2 GB memory, 80 GB root volume and 10 GB user volume, running on Windows with a fixed price of $25 per machine per month. Google’s competitive prices will ultimately benefit the entire technology ecosystem, from individuals users and developers to startups and enterprises.Using the US West (Oregon) Region, you launch virtual desktops for two sets of users. Ideally, Google’s new prices will push other cloud services to do the same in some ways, as ReadWrite contributor Matt Asay notes, it’s already begun happening. If anything, lower prices will push greater adoption rates which, in turn, provide greater focus on optimizing infrastructure to the cloud. Drive is the glue that binds Google’s family of productivity apps together: It’s the home for Docs, Slides and Sheets (Google’s answer to Microsoft’s Office suite of apps), it contains all of your photos from Google+ and it’s the foundation for storage options within Gmail, Google’s popular email service. Google Drive may not be the company’s sexiest offering, but it is one of its most important. Turning Cloud Storage Into A CommodityĪ cheaper Google Drive means more money goes directly to the company, but more importantly, it benefits Google’s entire ecosystem. To reiterate, Google only asks for $10 a month for 1 TB. Similarly, the cheapest plans on Microsoft’s Azure platform cost about $68 per month for 1 TB.
Amazon’s popular S3 cloud service, which is a favorite among developers (Dropbox included), costs roughly $85/month for a terabyte of space.
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