AliCloud recently announced price reductions for all its cloud products, with an average price reduction of more than 20% and a maximum reduction of 55%. It isAliThe largest price reduction in cloud history involves more than 100 products and more than 500 product specifications, including computing, storage, and moreDatabasesand other core products. The move is intended to provide more advanced public cloud services, promotingCloud computingPopularity and development in all walks of life in China.
The most popular products for this price reduction include ECSObject storageoss andCloud databasesrds。Among them, the highest drop in ECS was 36%.Object storageOSS has a price reduction of up to 55%.Cloud databasesThe highest reduction in RDS was 40%. AliThe core product of the cloud** has reached the lowest price in the whole network after this price reduction.
This move is intended to lower the barrier to entry to the cloud and enable more enterprises and developers to enjoy advanced public cloud services. In the future,AliThe cloud will also continue to bring annual price reductions for core cloud products and provide more free creditsInclusiveSmall and medium-sized enterprises.
AliLiu Weiguang, senior vice president of Cloud Intelligence Group and president of the public cloud business department, said that the price reduction is not short-termMarket competitionbehavior, ratherAliThe cloud is based on the public cloudBusiness modellong-term strategic choices made.
He notedCloud computingIt is a network effect and scale effectBusiness model。As the largest cloud service provider in Asia,AliThe cloud primarily provides a reusable global baseCloud computingNetworks and resource pools. With the expansion of the user scale,ChainProcurement costs, R & D costs and resource idle costs continue to decrease, and the products will be cheaper.
Despite ChinaCloud computingThe market has been in development for more than a decade, but the public cloudPermeabilityIt is still far below the mature markets of Europe and the United States. Liu Weiguang pointed out that the size of the server stock in the Chinese market is about 20 million, while the server stock in the United States has reached about 21 million, but the computing power provided in the form of public cloud accounts for 60% in the United States and only 28% in China. This means that there is still a lot of room for growth in China's public cloud market.
AliThe purpose of this cloud price reduction action is to further expand the user base and scale of the public cloudCloud computingmarketPermeability。This is tooAliAnother cut** move by the cloud after announcing a price cut in April last year.
With this price reduction,AliThe cloud hopes to attract more small and medium-sized enterprises and developers to the cloud and enjoy high qualityCloud computingServe. Lowering the threshold for cloud migration can effectively lower the threshold for cloud migration and accelerate the popularization and application of public cloud in all walks of life.
According to ** reports,AliThe cloud's price reduction action is also taken into accountMarket competitionpressure. With domesticCloud computingAs the market continues to grow, major cloud service providers have launched price reduction measures to compete for more market share. Price reduction is undoubtedly one of the important means to expand the scale of users and increase market share.
AliMassive price cuts for the cloud will undoubtedly be rightCloud computingThe market has a positive impact. By reducing **, it will attract more small and medium-sized enterprises and developers to the cloud, promotingCloud computingPopularity and development in the Chinese market. With the expansion of the scale of users, cloud service providersChainProcurement costs, R & D costs and resource idle costs will also continue to decrease, product quality will be further reduced, and the entire market will be promoted to a healthy development.
For small and medium-sized businesses,AliThe price reductions in the cloud will result in real cost savings. Lower the threshold for cloud migration, so that more small and medium-sized enterprises can enjoy advanced cloud services, and enhance their competitiveness and innovation capabilities. In addition, by increasing the free quota of a number of essential products for cloud migrationAliThe cloud also goes furtherInclusivesmall and medium-sized enterprises to promote their healthy development.
In general,AliCloud's large-scale price reduction action has been widely recognized and praised by the market and users. Nowadays,Cloud computingThe market is showing a vigorous development trend, and it is expected to usher in more opportunities and challenges in the future. As the largest cloud service provider in AsiaAliThe cloud will continue to be committed to providing high qualityCloud computingServe, pushCloud computingThe healthy development of the industry.