A very basic truth that AWS understands is that you introduce a product at price X, and then either keep it at X or reduce the price moving forward. You never,

A very basic truth that AWS understands is that you introduce a product at price X, and then either keep it at X or reduce the price moving forward. You never, ever, EVER increase prices on established products. You also basically never discontinue products, even if there's only a handful of customers still using it (ex: SimpleDB). Apparently it's just too tempting to Google management to juice revenue in the short term, but screw their customer trust and adoption in the longer term.