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Is this a reactionary move in response to Amazon's new service and lower S3 pricing?
by stephengillie 14y ago
Is this a reactionary move in response to Amazon's new service and lower S3 pricing?
- ChuckMcM 14y agoOne would assume now that they are priced nearly identically.
- stephengillie 14y agoAny economist would. Could Google be leveraging their grasp of the world's free information to predict their competitors' pricing changes?
- skinnyarms 14y agoAccording to the re:Invent keynote Amazon has dropped aws prices 20+ times over it's 6.5 year lifespan. Google doesn't need to tap into it's records to know Amazon is playing the high volume\low margin game. Edit: typo
- mtgx 14y agoThis could be a signal they want to send to Amazon, too "every time you cut your prices, we will, too, and that will just be bad for both of us".
- digeridoo 14y agoIf doing it two days earlier can be considered reactionary...
- saurik 14y agoThat doesn't provide causation; you don't wake up on Tuesday, see a price change from Google on Monday, and change the keynote you are giving on Wednesday to rush through a price drop. If anything, it makes more sense to think that Google got word of the things Amazon was announcing at their conference a few weeks ago, and after some careful thought decided to jump Amazon's announcement so that they wouldn't look expensive.
- asdfologist 14y agoHis comment doesn't imply that causation happened in either direction.
- saurik 14y agoI am not certain how to read the comment other than "it isn't possible for it to be reactionary as it happened first", which I believe I corrected (but maybe, as I demonstrated a stronger conjecture in addition, that doesn't count?).