Obviously I can't say for certain Amazon has an agenda here but I could see how this would benefit them. [puts on additional tin foil hat] I don't think Amazo

Obviously I can't say for certain Amazon has an agenda here but I could see how this would benefit them. [puts on additional tin foil hat] I don't think Amazon would be targeting the big players like Google and MS. All of them can easily afford to take the loss. But this could affect the smaller VM providers (DO, Linode, Upserve, etc.) with less capital. Losing even just a few percentage points of CPU performance would cut into already thin margins. If there is a conspiracy here, I think they would be targeting the smaller players in the industry.