Ideally, Google’s new prices will push other cloud services to do the same in some ways, as ReadWrite contributor Matt Asay notes, it’s already begun happening. If anything, lower prices will push greater adoption rates which, in turn, provide greater focus on optimizing infrastructure to the cloud. Drive is the glue that binds Google’s family of productivity apps together: It’s the home for Docs, Slides and Sheets (Google’s answer to Microsoft’s Office suite of apps), it contains all of your photos from Google+ and it’s the foundation for storage options within Gmail, Google’s popular email service.

Google Drive may not be the company’s sexiest offering, but it is one of its most important. Turning Cloud Storage Into A CommodityĪ cheaper Google Drive means more money goes directly to the company, but more importantly, it benefits Google’s entire ecosystem. To reiterate, Google only asks for $10 a month for 1 TB. Similarly, the cheapest plans on Microsoft’s Azure platform cost about $68 per month for 1 TB. Amazon’s popular S3 cloud service, which is a favorite among developers (Dropbox included), costs roughly $85/month for a terabyte of space.

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