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Significant blow to all APM players in the space. Approximately 50% of New Relic's revenue comes from AWS. Datadog just announced their distributed tracing syst
by inthewoods 10y ago
Significant blow to all APM players in the space. Approximately 50% of New Relic's revenue comes from AWS. Datadog just announced their distributed tracing system at $25/host. X-Ray is orders of magnitude cheaper than either - and per trace pricing is something that would be very tough for anyone else to do and plays well to Lambda efforts.
X-Ray seems like a pretty basic service at this point but in my opinion the writing is on the wall for other APM providers. Amazon chose this announcement for a major slot so I expect they'll be investing in the service. As Bezos is often quoted as saying "your margin is my opportunity."