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It's not just a selling point, it's a reflection on how providers see customers. I've been struck when using other platforms (OCI, some PaaSes) that it feels a
by eropple 4y ago
It's not just a selling point, it's a reflection on how providers see customers. I've been struck when using other platforms (OCI, some PaaSes) that it feels a lot more like a partnership, where everybody makes money when I succeed, than a short-horizon extraction machine. And sure, maybe they'd change their minds in AWS's position...but they're not, and maybe nobody should be allowed to be as big as AWS?
OCI also doesn't charge for NAT gateways, which makes sense because it's a configuration in a router that already exists and is already doing things. AWS, on the other hand, brings out the knives for you.
- js4ever 4y agoDo you think OCI would keep that pricing if they where the leader? Just check Oracle history for milking customers
- eropple 4y agoWhat does that have to do with literally anything, except excusing anticompetitive and extractive behavior because somebody else might hypothetically do it? They aren't and so they can't. AWS can and should be prevented from doing so.