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Could Amazon put the squeeze on Dropbox by raising the price of S3? Would that be a shot in the foot due to a reduction in sales for S3 but worth it to get int
by JamesBaxter 12y ago
Could Amazon put the squeeze on Dropbox by raising the price of S3?
Would that be a shot in the foot due to a reduction in sales for S3 but worth it to get into cloud storage?
- imaginenore 12y agoI would be surprised if Dropbox hasn't looked at the alternatives. S3 is pretty expensive as is.
- davidu 12y agoThere is no way Dropbox is paying stock S3 pricing.
- dhimes 12y agoMaybe dropbox should get an account and use it as the storage for their service. :)
- 727374 12y agoUnlikely for a bunch of reasons. 1) Amazon has a history of competing fairly with customers (e.g. Netflix) and wouldn't want to ruin its reputation in that regard 2) Big customers like dropbox make S3 better (power users + increased economies of scale 3) Raising the price of S3 would risk Dropbox shifting to another cloud provider with no guarantee that customers would shift to Amazon storage