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Has any other large cloud provider increase prices like this ? I remember using Google App Engine awhile ago and switched to AWS when they increased prices and
by zitterbewegung 5y ago
Has any other large cloud provider increase prices like this ? I remember using Google App Engine awhile ago and switched to AWS when they increased prices and I don’t understand why you would just have prices higher and eventually lower them once you get more customers . Other than BigQuery and TPUs I’m not sure of the advantages of Google cloud …
- bluedino 5y agoNot yet, but with Amazon increasing everyone's salaries, the price of everything in general going up, you're likely to see every large provider raise their prices. It seems like only the new players will lower prices.
- acdha 5y agoHow much revenue does Amazon generate per employee? This comes up a lot in arguments about the minimum wage where people talk like the price of a Big Mac will double because they aren't accurately accounting for the percentage of cost which isn't human time. Amazon, Google, Microsoft, etc. pay their people a lot more but they also typically can amortize a developer's cost over many thousands of customers so I'd be surprised if this drove a big increase — especially compared to the stress we're likely to see if China has an extended Omicron lockdown.
- staticassertion 5y agoAmazon and AWS function pretty independently. It would be really odd to see Amazon raises impact AWS prices.
- tedivm 5y agoAWS raised salaries, not Amazon. That said I don't expect that to result in a raise in prices, as AWS is pretty profitable.
- oblio 5y agoAmazon raised salaries: https://www.geekwire.com/2022/what-amazons-big-pay-increase-says-about-the-company-and-the-broader-tech-industry-in-2022/ https://www.geekwire.com/2022/what-amazons-big-pay-increase-...