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Not saying it’s a bad deal. RDS is a great service. I’m saying that suddenly doubling the cost of a service is not a good look unless the value delivered is als
by rbranson 7y ago
Not saying it’s a bad deal. RDS is a great service. I’m saying that suddenly doubling the cost of a service is not a good look unless the value delivered is also doubled. As a customer, in what situation would you find this acceptable?
- mstolpm 7y agoI seem to miss something here? If RDS went from $0,465 to $0,342 per hour as shown in the table, that’s roughly a decrease by one third in cost for me. Where does the „suddenly doubling the cost“ part come from? Isn’t it that the total cost for me decrease, just not at the rate of other AWS offerings?
- rbranson 7y agoAs much as AWS wants you to believe otherwise, the actual price of RDS as a value-add is its premium on top of EC2 pricing.
- pests 7y agoThere was no sudden doubling. Prices were lowered just not to everyone's satisfaction or expectation.
- smabie 7y ago> I’m saying that suddenly doubling the cost of a service is not a good look unless the value delivered is also doubled. That's not how markets and pricing work. Prices can go up for any number of reasons, demand is high, demand is too low, past pricing was too aggressive. Amazon has historically been operated with very low profits, maybe Bezos wants to change that? I'm not sure why you feel offended or deserve a certain price point. Go with some other cloud provider, and if it's too much work, well then there you have it: Amazon has just justified their RDS pricing.
- rbranson 7y agoAWS has always had high margins. And I don’t care if they are in a market position to dictate the short-term price, I believe it’s bad business over the long term. Charging more for the same thing is certainly not customer obsession. Oh, and thanks for the middle school economics lesson.