Is this a reactionary move in response to Amazon's new service and lower S3 pric...

digeridoo · on Nov 28, 2012

If doing it two days earlier can be considered reactionary...

saurik · on Nov 28, 2012

That doesn't provide causation; you don't wake up on Tuesday, see a price change from Google on Monday, and change the keynote you are giving on Wednesday to rush through a price drop. If anything, it makes more sense to think that Google got word of the things Amazon was announcing at their conference a few weeks ago, and after some careful thought decided to jump Amazon's announcement so that they wouldn't look expensive.

asdfologist · on Nov 29, 2012

His comment doesn't imply that causation happened in either direction.

saurik · on Nov 29, 2012

I am not certain how to read the comment other than "it isn't possible for it to be reactionary as it happened first", which I believe I corrected (but maybe, as I demonstrated a stronger conjecture in addition, that doesn't count?).

ChuckMcM · on Nov 28, 2012

One would assume now that they are priced nearly identically.

stephengillie · on Nov 28, 2012

Any economist would.

Could Google be leveraging their grasp of the world's free information to predict their competitors' pricing changes?

skinnyarms · on Nov 28, 2012

According to the re:Invent keynote Amazon has dropped aws prices 20+ times over it's 6.5 year lifespan. Google doesn't need to tap into it's records to know Amazon is playing the high volume\low margin game.

Edit: typo

mtgx · on Nov 29, 2012

This could be a signal they want to send to Amazon, too "every time you cut your prices, we will, too, and that will just be bad for both of us".