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infogulch on May 10, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: AWS EC2 General Price Cut

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 on May 10, 2020 [–]

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

lostapathy on May 10, 2020 | [–]

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

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