Summary:
Rackspace standard storage vs AWS EBS (for 1TB of storage with 100 IOPS)<p>Results:
AWS = $126/month
Rackspace = $150/month<p>Rackspace SSD vs AWS PIOPS (for 1TB of storage with 1000 IOPS)<p>Results:
AWS = $225/month
Rackspace = $700/month<p>From the blog: "Rackspace's Cloud Block Storage offerings are positioned to rival AWS' EBS offering. They are priced slightly higher than AWS' offering, however as stated by Rackspace's official blog [1], they claim higher performance, SLAs and support."<p>[1] <a href="http://www.rackspace.com/blog/cloud-block-storage/" rel="nofollow">http://www.rackspace.com/blog/cloud-block-storage/</a>