Very interesting development. This illustrates one risk for companies built on the idea of outsourcing infrastructure to Amazon AWS (Smugmug, Dropbox etc). You

Very interesting development. This illustrates one risk for companies built on the idea of outsourcing infrastructure to Amazon AWS (Smugmug, Dropbox etc). You better add much more value on top of AWS, otherwise a Google/Microsoft can undercut you big-time on price. My perception is that they haven't dropped prices enough although hardware has become much better (1 GHz equivalent machine as baseline?, I built a quad-core machine for $600 and got a 1TB drive for less than $100). Google's move definitely validates my hunch. I was thinking about getting a Smugmug account, but now I will probably use a Google account.