I'm surprised this is being cast as Amazon <i>responding</i> to Google's price cuts- the AWS conference was scheduled months in advance so if anything Google heard about the price cuts and announced their own just ahead of the conference as a (successful; apparently) attempt to take the wind out of Amazon's announcement.<p>Interesting that they dropped by the same amount; either it was a lucky guess, Amazon adjusted their adjustment at the last minute, or AWS has a mole.
I keep expecting Amazon to change their reserved instance policy. Who's going to commit to reserved instances during an ongoing price-war?<p>Amazon themselves proudly announce it as their <i>42nd</i> price drop. That's not really a strong selling point for long term contracts.
I am wondering how many and who in enterprises are using Google cloud? I understand few startups, typically associated with Google in some way, are using google cloud. I just can't imagine many enterprises putting up with poor customer service and ego of Google.
I wonder if Digital Ocean will even lower their rates?<p>For now, I've noticed their Competitor Pricing page is just redirecting to their normal pricing page.<p><a href="https://www.digitalocean.com/competitor-pricing/" rel="nofollow">https://www.digitalocean.com/competitor-pricing/</a> (just redirects)<p>Cached copy: <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:I33lI_PgDJ4J:https://www.digitalocean.com/competitor-pricing+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" rel="nofollow">http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:I33lI_P...</a>
As I look at the pricing wars, I realized something: If you choose to use "cloud" based in your projects or businesses, you will never know the long-term costs associated with operating in the cloud.<p>The cloud provider can raise or lower prices as they see fit. What prevents these for-profit companies to keep lowering prices and not raising them?