Cloud Service Providers: A Comparative Analysis of Cloud Storage Pricing
Shahid Yaqub, Iqra Sattar, Nayyar Manzoor, Salman Ashraf · International Journal of Computer Applications · 2017
Cloud computing provides easy access and high performance computing on the data.Other major challenge faced by software companies is storage of data at affordable cost and makes available all the time.For both the consumers and the business customers cloud storage is a major repository.Perceptible means of contest is pricing but the difficulty of pricing plans may make a judgment difficult.In this paper the major cloud service providing companies are selected and their pricing plan is surveyed and compared them using the unit price as the means of comparison.The pricing plan is compared by point wise for value of storage volume and an overall comparison is made by Paretodominance criteria.Under both approaches, most providers appear to offer pricing plans that are more costly and can be expelled from a procurement selection in favor of a limited number of dominant service providers.