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So "improving customer experience" is really Amazon speak for "saving us money"
by peterwwillis 8y ago
So "improving customer experience" is really Amazon speak for "saving us money"
- huac 8y agoreduces incentive for them to raise prices
- sharpy 8y agoAnd reduces chances of outages... which is good for both customers and AWS.
- rifung 8y agoDo they not charge for network costs anyway? A more optimistic view is that this allows them to provide a better service.
- BillinghamJ 8y agoThey charge for data transfer. They don't charge based on the level of complexity needed for their internal network operations.
- jcoq 8y agoEverything is a tradeoff.
- BillinghamJ 8y agoMakes it faster, reduces complexity and would allow them to reduce prices too
- dredmorbius 8y agoPricing is set by markets based on competitors' offerings. Reduced costs could simply result in monopoly rents.