On: AWS EC2 General Price Cut

[infogulch]

Hmm, given the uneven reductions between regions, I wonder if this is more of a move to balance (and increase) demand so that it more closely matches their supply. So then I guess the question is: why do they have excess supply?

[lawrenceyan → infogulch]

Competing cloud service providers gouging away at what used to be an AWS monopoly that unfortunately for Amazon, no longer exists.

[lostapathy → lawrenceyan]

Alternatively, some regions are cheaper to add capacity to than others (either cap-ex and/or op-ex), so extra capacity gets steered there.