Cost Comparison of Prominent Cloud Service Providers
                     Cost Comparison of Prominent 
Cloud Service Providers

Implementing cloud solutions enable businesses to strengthen their IT infrastructure, 
streamline their inbound/outbound processes, and safeguard their mission-critical data. As the 
cloud application development services become mainstream, several leading cloud service 
providers have significantly reduced their prices. In addition, they have upgraded their cloud 
offerings and increased value proposition for improved customer support. However, several 
startups and small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) face difficulties while choosing the right 
cloud service to achieve their business goals.
 
This blog post guides you in the right direction to choose a reliable and effective cloud service 
provider at the best price. 
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Let’s explore why using AWS for DevOps can be beneficial: 
When it comes to cloud services, tech giants like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft dominate the global 
market on a large scale. That being said, it has always been difficult to compare these three in terms of 
pricing as well as quality. Let’s compare the popular cloud services and their prices with respect to cloud 
storage.     
 Amazon S3
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is one of the most extensively used cloud services platforms that provides on-
demand cloud services on a metered pay-as-you-go basis. Under AWS, Amazon Simple Storage Service 
(S3) is a popular cloud storage service that provides object storage through a dedicated interface. Amazon 
S3 enables enterprises to effortlessly manage their data with improved security at every level.
 There are three main expenses related with Amazon S3: 
 Capacity cost (charged per GB/month) ~ $0.03/GB/month 
It is charged on an hourly basis. 
 
Programming interface cost for activity of documents ~ $0.005/10000 
 
Information moved outside of AWS ~ $0.02/GB 
Information moved to AWS ~$0.06/GB 4
Amazon EBS
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) provides a variety of storage options that are mainly divided into 
two broad categories i.e SSD-backed storage and disk-backed storage. The former is effective at 
handling transactional workloads while the latter is best suited for handling throughput-intensive 
workloads.  
General Purpose SSD (gp2) $0.10 per GB/month of provisioned 
Volumes storage
Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1) $0.125 per GB/month 
Volumes
Throughput Optimized HDD (st1) $0.045 per GB/month
Volumes
Cold HDD (sc1) Volumes $0.025 per GB-month
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Google Cloud Storage
Google is the second largest cloud service provider having a dedicated cloud platform under the 
name of Google Cloud Storage. The platform provides secure storage and seamless access to 
enterprise data on Google cloud infrastructure. It further improves data security and adds advanced 
sharing capabilities for a seamless access to enterprise data across devices. 
Multi-regional $0.026 - 0.036 per GB/month
Regional $0.02 - 0.035 per GB/month
Nearline $0.01 - 0.02 per GB/month
Coldline $0.004 - 0.014 per GB/month
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Azure Files
Azure Files is a cloud computing service from Microsoft that provides a fully managed data 
storage and file sharing platform. The file shares on Azure cloud are easily accessible across 
devices via Server Message Block, popularly known as the SMB protocol.  
Block Blobs $0.002 per GB/month
Azure data Lake Storage $0.001 per GB/month
Managed Disks $1.54 per GB/month
Files $0.06 per GB/month
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Conclusion
Although the price comparison between these cloud platforms have little significance, it can 
sometimes reveal major differences that might have gone unnoticed. It is, therefore advisable to 
consider pricing as value as the value offerings of different cloud platforms while finalizing your cloud 
service provider. 
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friendly enterprise applications on cloud. Our development team specializes in using the prominent 
cloud computing platforms like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud to integrate cloud technology into your 
business processes. Our enterprise cloud services safeguard your mission-critical business data and 
improve accessibility across devices
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