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AWS Lowers Data Transfer Prices
- cstejerean 19y agoIt seems like Bezos wasn't joking when he said Amazon is actively looking to lower their costs and pass the savings to the consumers.
- Xichekolas 19y agoAn amusing case where lowering your price raises the bar to entry for competitors. Well played Amazon, well played.
- rudyfink 19y agoNot trying to troll, but isn't lowering prices always a competitive pressure on other players in the market.
- Xichekolas 19y agoI guess what I was going for was they were forgoing profits in the short term to preemptively shut out possible future competitors. They already have a big lead here... so they are trading some profits (realized through cost savings) for extending that lead. Don't feel like a troll for pointing out that I was being redundantly redundant.
- procyon 19y agoI guess it is some what expected when Google and Microsoft both are entering in same market.
- sah 19y agoMicrosoft is entering this market?
- cstejerean 19y agoIf be entering the market we're talking about the magical platform that will sync all your data and applications across all your devices, wait no, just Windows devices, then maybe. But I hardly see that being anywhere close to S3.
- dfranke 19y agoSaturday I bitch at Bezos about EC2 prices, Wednesday they announce a price cut. I'll let my ego think that it isn't a coincidence :-)
- joanou 19y agoStill too expensive. Why charge for transfer costs?
- jrockway 19y agoBecause it costs them money to transfer the data to you.
- groovyone 19y agoSome people just aren't satisfied :)
- superchink 19y agoGuys, I think he's joking. You are, aren't you?
- kvogt 19y agoumm, yes please. amazon actually sent us (justin.tv) an email showing how many dollars we'll save this month based on last month's usage.
- joanou 19y agoI am half joking. I realize there are real costs, albeit very small [orders of magnitude lower than AWS], for data transfer. For my application, I would love to outsource storage, but the economics using AWS are not favorable. I will continue to host my own storage.