Amazon Zocalo Arrives To Start Pricing War With Dropbox & Box
The Big Daddy of cloud storage, Amazon has announced a new service, called 'Amazon Zocalo'. Before we tell you how Zocalo is a bad news for your favorite services like Box.net, Dropbox and Google Docs; wouldn't it be nice to know what 'Zocalo' means? Well, Zocalo (Zócalo) is the main plaza (big square shaped) at the center of the Mexico City. That's what Amazon might want to be - the 'center place' for all your enterprise storage and sharing needs. As of writing this article, Zocalo service is available as a limited preview and you need to request Amazon to let you in. Let's find out what's Amazon got in their brand new offering.
The Zocalo comes with plenty of features that you'd find in its rivals - from secure & encrypted sharing tool for various types of office documents (excel, word, ppt, images, pdfs etc.), multi-device access, collaboration features like commenting on documents and editing, email alerts for various events, tight control over who has access to the content etc. But the real fun starts with the pricing. Amazon AWS is already known for lowering their prices to an extent where the competitors starts sweating and it's no different for the Zocalo.
While Dropbox's Pro plan starts at $9.99 /user/month for 100GB and Box.com offers it at $5 for $100GB per user per month; Amazon's game starts at $5 for 200 GB per user per month. If you are an existing Amazon WorkSpaces user, you can get the service for $2/user/month for upgrading to 200GB of storage from existing 50GB. If you are a big enterprise that needs TBs of data, the additional costs start at $0.0300 per additional GB till 1TB and it gets cheaper afterwards. The price chart is available in the source link below.
We believe that Amazon's entry in the enterprise storage has likely sent Dropbox, Google and Box guys back to modifying their business plan. We'd love to hear from our fellow engineers about the new Zocalo service. Do you think the lower pricing alone will cut it from Amazon?
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The Zocalo comes with plenty of features that you'd find in its rivals - from secure & encrypted sharing tool for various types of office documents (excel, word, ppt, images, pdfs etc.), multi-device access, collaboration features like commenting on documents and editing, email alerts for various events, tight control over who has access to the content etc. But the real fun starts with the pricing. Amazon AWS is already known for lowering their prices to an extent where the competitors starts sweating and it's no different for the Zocalo.
While Dropbox's Pro plan starts at $9.99 /user/month for 100GB and Box.com offers it at $5 for $100GB per user per month; Amazon's game starts at $5 for 200 GB per user per month. If you are an existing Amazon WorkSpaces user, you can get the service for $2/user/month for upgrading to 200GB of storage from existing 50GB. If you are a big enterprise that needs TBs of data, the additional costs start at $0.0300 per additional GB till 1TB and it gets cheaper afterwards. The price chart is available in the source link below.
We believe that Amazon's entry in the enterprise storage has likely sent Dropbox, Google and Box guys back to modifying their business plan. We'd love to hear from our fellow engineers about the new Zocalo service. Do you think the lower pricing alone will cut it from Amazon?
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