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Couldn't write a couple paragraphs on a blog and then link to that?

Amazon's cut prices, and the high end of their offerings have gone up. Yes, they're going to take a disproportionate share of the benefits from speed if they can get away with it. They also took all the risk on the outlay and used to charge comparatively less per dollar of provisioned hardware when they bought those chips. So I don't think they're ripping anyone off, yet.

If it becomes a bad deal, people are free to go elsewhere - likely quite easily, what with EC2's architecture.




Are you really complaining about a lack of blogspam? Dear lord.

I'd prefer people say as little as is needed to spur thought and conversation without directing me to some ghetto blogspot page that lurched into existence a week prior.


Excuse me, why is this being downvoted?


Maybe people don't see a particular need for this to be a blog post?


Don't ask meta questions like that please, distracts from the conversation at hand.


Well geez, sorry for ruining your morning.

My post was approx 20% meta question, 80% substantive, by word count.


See? You keep getting downvoted. Exercise some self-control and dignity and focus on the topic at hand. I'm violating my own habits here to try to show you what you're doing.

And getting back to the subject, are you aware of any companies that have been upgrading their servers beyond just RAM (such as linode)?


Yeah, Amazon. Cutting prices across the board at the low-medium end and adding new options at the high end. As I said in my original comment.


> Sorry if you couldn't get that in between all of my awful, antisocial behavior.

The griping and passive-aggressive comments are what's causing the down votes. Cut it out

As for the price cuts, at the small-medium size ranges, the cuts haven't been extensive, and certainly not to the same scale as what Moore's law would indicate. The new options at the high-end aren't an upgrade if they cost more (which is in fact the case).

At present the best deal I've been able to find in terms of $/performance has been Linode, but they aren't the most reliable in the world so far.


Moore's law is a law of economics, not nature. Competition drives the performance improvements coming out of Intel and AMD, and competition will drive the rate at which savings are passed along to the consumer in cloud service providers.


It's not even really a law of economics or nature. Or a law. It's a state of a tendency if the rate of expansion of transistor density.

At present, it's more economical (if you don't need programmatic elastic expansion of your cluster) to rent/lease dedicated hardware or set up your own. This is because hardware has been getting faster than they have been upgrading.

>Competition drives the performance improvements coming out of Intel and AMD, and competition will drive the rate at which savings are passed along to the consumer in cloud service providers.

The point of this discussion is that this hasn't happened yet with any known majors beyond RAM upgrades and small amounts of price-twiddling.




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