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Re:The metrics behind Spotify’s IPO by Mr_Ed on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @08:48AM (#16528799)
Hi, author here!

Thanks for the correction on this -- I'll update the article with correct info. I'm not a Prime subscriber and the information on Prime benefits are completely intransparent.

And if I can't easily figure that out, it's unlikely that average consumer Joe will. The perceived value of each offering is the point here.

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Re:The metrics behind Spotify’s IPO by pc86 on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @10:17AM (#16529313)
> intransparent

They're probably opaque, as well.

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Re:The metrics behind Spotify’s IPO by matwood on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @10:34AM (#16529420)
Cost opaqueness is Amazon's MO around services. AWS is a huge offender.
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Re:The metrics behind Spotify’s IPO by joncrane on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @11:31AM (#16529843)
I've found it relatively easy to price out AWS projects, especially using their Cost Calculator: https://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html

Between that and https://ec2instances.info/, I can figure out the vast majority of what I need to know about costs on AWS.

What are the gaps that you see?

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Re:The metrics behind Spotify’s IPO by toomuchtodo on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @07:01PM (#16533269)
Tell me what your ALB costs are going to be next month.

“You are charged for each hour or partial hour that an Application Load Balancer is running and the number of Load Balancer Capacity Units (LCU) used per hour.”

Go here and see how “LCUs” are computed: https://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/pricing/

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Re:The metrics behind Spotify’s IPO by sushisource on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @12:51PM (#16530508)
If they were genuinely interested in making it easy you'd see pricing information every time you're spinning up a new EC2 instance / whatever other service, right there, without needing to go pull up the cost calculator. Have an instant "estimate my current bill" button, etc, etc.
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Re:The metrics behind Spotify’s IPO by arbie on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @01:11PM (#16530674)
To be fair, Azure is no less opaque.
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Re:The metrics behind Spotify’s IPO by nemothekid on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @08:31PM (#16533673)
If you spin up almost anything on GCP, you can see the monthly cost right there, with all the options you have selected.

A rather obvious gap is this one - How much will an i3.xlarge with an extra 2TiB of storage cost you per month on AWS?

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Re:The metrics behind Spotify’s IPO by GarrisonPrime on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @09:19AM (#16528986)
>The perceived value of each offering is the point here.

Ah yes. The creed of American media: The truth doesn't matter. All that matters is what the masses can be convinced to believe.

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Re:The metrics behind Spotify’s IPO by bogomipz on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @09:29AM (#16529035)
>"Ah yes. The creed of American media ..."

This statement regarding "perceived value" has nothing to do with "American media", "fake news" truth distorting or even politics.

It's baffling that you have chosen to stake such claims on the author.

Perceived value pricing is actually a marketing strategy. Its used in factoring pricing for everything from gym memberships, to luxury good and delivery services.

see: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/perceived-value.asp

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Re:The metrics behind Spotify’s IPO by ealexhudson on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @09:24AM (#16529006)
His point stands: irrespective of what the "facts" are here, if shoppers are doing an apples-to-oranges comparison and picking Amazon, then that's a problem for Spotify.
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