Cloud infrastructure pricing has been incredibly variable across different providers since its beginning. Adding fuel to the fire, many IaaS providers do not offer prospective customers help in understanding pricing, as evident through a lack of transparency. All of the confusion is frustrating and leads to uncertainty that directly affects your bottom line. While there are many factors to consider, this ProfitBricks webinar, "The Secret World of Cloud IaaS Pricing: How to Compare Apples and Oranges Among Cloud Providers," will help guide you in the process of taking control and reducing your pricing frustrations in the cloud. You'll learn: The Current State of Cloud Computing IaaS Pricing and Packaging Overview of Configurations Understanding how to leverage the Price/Performance ratio and the role it plays in the Cloud Computing How to evaluate IaaS providers - See how you can save 43 to 80%, while getting twice the performance

1. The Secret World of IaaS Pricing
With:
The ProfitBricks 30 Minute Webinar Series:

2. WELCOME
Cloud Computing 2.02
• Welcome to the ProfitBricks 30 Minute Webinar!
• Today’s Program:
• “The Secret World of IaaS Pricing”
• Why Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) pricing is confusing
• Breaking down the impact of temporary storage, tiered vs configurable
instances, and performance
• How hidden costs like support and IOPS can surprise you on your bill
Pete Johnson
Cloud Platform Evangelist
ProfitBricks
@nerdguru
Kenny Li
Co-Founder & CEO
Cloud Spectator
@KennyMuLi

3. 3
• Founded in 2010, 125 Employees (July– 2013)
• Global Cloud Computing Service – IaaS (Infrastructure
as a Service) – operations in Berlin, Germany and
Boston, MA,
• No legacy infrastructure, hardware or provisioning
systems
• Focus on delivering pure IaaS services with market
leading price/performance ratios
• Strong roadmap with additional DC’s and Innovative
Cloud Computing Infrastructure
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4. QUESTIONS, SLIDES, ETC
Cloud Computing 2.04
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questions in the
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• These slides will be
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5. • Founded in 2011, 10 employees
• Performance and Pricing analytics across the IaaS industry
• Fully automated benchmarking suite to capture performance capabilities and
fluctuation throughout time across public IaaS providers
• Working to establish a standard in IaaS performance in the industry.
About Cloud Spectator

6. Has run benchmarks on:

7. Cloud Computing 2.07
IAAS PRICING IN GENERAL
What do you think about IaaS pricing?
Is pricing straightforward or is it confusing?

8. NON-OBVIOUS STORAGE DIFFERENCES
Cloud Computing 2.08
What’s the difference between types of
storage you get with IaaS compute
offerings?

9. COMPARING APPLES TO ORANGES
Cloud Computing 2.09

10. COMPARING APPLES TO APPLES
Cloud Computing 2.010

11. TIERED VS CONFIGURABLE SIZES
Cloud Computing 2.011
How do tiered vs configurable sizes impact
customer cost?

12. FINANCIAL IMPACT OF CONFIGURABLE
VS TIERED INSTANCES
Cloud Computing 2.012
0
50
100
150
200
250
Cores
RAM
AWS Tiered Sizes
ProfitBricks Cores & RAM
Configurable GUI Sliders

13. PERFORMANCE
Cloud Computing 2.013
Does performance matter?

14. PERFORMANCE = $
Cloud Computing 2.014
Why buy 4 CPUs
when you can get
similar performance
out of 1 CPU?

15. OTHER COST FACTORS
Cloud Computing 2.015
What about other costs like 24/7 telephone
support & IOPS?
Are those standard across providers?

16. SUMMARY
Cloud Computing 2.016
• IaaS pricing is confusing, be careful what you
are comparing with different vendors
• Be aware of:
• Temporary storage vs redundant block storage
• Tiered vs configurable instance sizes
• Performance differences = $
• Potentially hidden costs like phone support and IOPS

17. THANK YOU + QUESTIONS
Cloud Computing 2.017
• Thanks for attending!
Pete Johnson
Cloud Platform Evangelist
ProfitBricks
@nerdguru
Kenny Li
Co-Founder & CEO
Cloud Spectator
@KennyMuLi
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Secret World of Cloud Computing
IaaS Pricing