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22% increase in some per-GB costs and 50% increase in some per-request costs of the most fungible, commodity service any cloud offers. Really no idea what to ma

by dmw_ng 5y ago

22% increase in some per-GB costs and 50% increase in some per-request costs of the most fungible, commodity service any cloud offers. Really no idea what to make of this. At least it seems reasonable to expect further pricing changes from other clouds in the coming weeks (and knowing AWS, maybe even an announcement in the coming day or two)

bluedino 5y ago
Well, it was called 'updates to pricing', not 'lower prices for' or 'double the memory/storage for our users'
acdha 5y ago
I’d be surprised if AWS announced increases: they LOVE to note that they’ve never done that in their sales pitches and enterprise customers value predictability more than the absolute lowest cost. I’d guess that their margins on things like network egress would cover most fluctuation but otherwise I’d expect at most to see something like the EU data centers getting a temporary Russian war energy surcharge while they figure out how to buy a ton of green power contracts.
- dmw_ng 5y ago
  Seems like a great time to discount some equivalent fees by a token amount, even if only 1%
  - acdha 5y ago
    If AWS wants to be cut-throat, they'd cut the margin on NAT Gateways down to, say, 20% and run a press release calling attention to the increases on other providers.
drusepth 5y ago
AFAICT they were a loss-leader with some of the cheapest cloud storage prior to this update, and this brings them closer in price to AWS/Azure (although still slightly cheaper). I wouldn't expect price changes from other platforms in response to this.