Cloud Price Index

Insight into the complex pricing models of public and private clouds

The state of cloud service pricing across the market

The 451 Research Cloud Price Index (CPI) comprehensively analyzes the cost of public and private cloud computing globally, enabling buyers and sellers of cloud services to make data-driven, strategic decisions around their cloud pricing and consumption.

What services are in the market, and who is offering them?

The 451 Research Cloud Price Index (CPI) uses a 'basket of goods' methodology to help buyers better assess the value of the options available to them, and to help sellers build a competitive pricing and positioning strategy.

Distinguishing cloud hype from reality

The Cloud Price Index analyzes price across specified baskets of cloud infrastructure services, uncovering how the cloud industry is evolving across the whole range of value-added services offered by providers and allowing buyers to understand the total cost of ownership (TCO) for their infrastructure.

The Cloud Price Index is updated each quarter, and the product includes a standard set of deliverables:

  • Quarterly Data Updates

    Tear sheets and visualizations of all relevant methodologies, models, data & commentary across North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia-Pacific

  • Quarterly Advisory Reports

    Detailed reports on pricing in the private and public cloud markets, comparisons of public vs. private hybrid cloud options and a 90-day outlook on buying intentions

  • Pricing Tool

    Web-based application enabling subscribers to perform custom analyses on global public and private cloud pricing

  • External Licensing

    Limited rights to external use of Cloud Price Index data (3 per quarter)

  • Annual Summary and Predictions

    Annual report summarizing the four quarterly surveys and 1:1 interviews looking at predictions for the next 12 months

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Key Analysts
Research Vice President, Digital Economics

Owen Rogers

As Research Vice President, Owen Rogers leads the firm's Digital Economics Unit, which serves to help customers understand the economics behind digital and cloud technologies so they can make informed choices when costing and pricing their own products and services, as well as those from their vendors, suppliers and competitors. Owen is the architect of the Cloud Price Index, 451 Research's benchmark indicator of the costs of public, private and managed clouds, and the Cloud Price Codex, our global survey of cloud pricing methods and mechanisms.

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Research VP, Cloud Transformation

William Fellows

William Fellows is a cofounder of The 451 Group. As VP of Research, he is responsible for the Cloud Transformation Channel at 451 Research. This Channel provides a point of intellectual convergence for 451 Research around cloud computing, in much the same ...

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Analyst, Cloud Price Index

Jean Atelsek

Jean Atelsek is an analyst for 451 Research's Digital Economics Unit, focusing on cloud pricing in the US and Europe.

Prior to joining 451 Research she was an editor at Ovum, spiffing up reports, forecasts and data tools covering telecoms a ...

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