Saturday I bitch at Bezos about EC2 prices, Wednesday they announce a price cut. I'll let my ego think that it isn't a coincidence :-)

But this is an S3 price cut, not an EC2 price cut.

It's a general data transfer price cut. It applies to both S3 and EC2.

umm, yes please. amazon actually sent us (justin.tv) an email showing how many dollars we'll save this month based on last month's usage.

It seems like Bezos wasn't joking when he said Amazon is actively looking to lower their costs and pass the savings to the consumers.

An amusing case where lowering your price raises the bar to entry for competitors. Well played Amazon, well played.

Not trying to troll, but isn't lowering prices always a competitive pressure on other players in the market.

I guess what I was going for was they were forgoing profits in the short term to preemptively shut out possible future competitors. They already have a big lead here... so they are trading some profits (realized through cost savings) for extending that lead.

Don't feel like a troll for pointing out that I was being redundantly redundant.

I am half joking. I realize there are real costs, albeit very small [orders of magnitude lower than AWS], for data transfer. For my application, I would love to outsource storage, but the economics using AWS are not favorable. I will continue to host my own storage.

I guess it is some what expected when Google and Microsoft both are entering in same market.

Microsoft is entering this market?

If be entering the market we're talking about the magical platform that will sync all your data and applications across all your devices, wait no, just Windows devices, then maybe. But I hardly see that being anywhere close to S3.

Still too expensive. Why charge for transfer costs?

Because it costs them money to transfer the data to you.

Guys, I think he's joking. You are, aren't you?

Some people just aren't satisfied :)