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Some Product Managers must be having a really bad day. AWS is usually super secret about the profit margin on their various cloud services, but now we know tha
by bpodgursky 6y ago
Some Product Managers must be having a really bad day.
AWS is usually super secret about the profit margin on their various cloud services, but now we know that the margin on Prometheus was at least 84%...
- genbit 6y agodoesn't have to be, they could sustain losses and count it as a marketing expense.
- bogdanu 6y agoHow is this even legal? Afaik in EU this kind of business practices are illegal.
- ghshephard 6y agoAmerican and European competition laws are very different. In the United States - the thing that gets close attention is any attempt to coordinate to increase prices, even if that results in increased competition. Decreasing prices to reduce competition gets a pass over here.
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- m00x 6y agoNot necessarily. They might be doing this to get more customers on it since they're losing to Datadog. Amazon has a long history of being willing to eat a ton of loss to kill competition like in the very popular diapers.com business.
- igetspam 6y agoThey have me interested. Datadog does a far better job with logs but their CM product is wildly expensive. Happy to let someone else run Prometheus for me.
- jpdb 6y agoI used to work at AWS and I have no first hand knowledge in this case, but would guess it's far more likely that the engineering teams figured out a way to run it cheaper than at launch, and passed that savings along to customers.