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Re:The Dawn Of Cloud 2.0 And Why Google Started A Price War by crb on Sunday April 20, 2014 @06:51AM (#7616444)
These events don't get booked with only a day's notice. And even if that was the case, Amazon knew when Google's event was, and they could have published their new pricing a day before that, and followed up at the event.

At their last event, Amazon only dropped the prices of services which have a direct Google equivalent. To me, that's telling.

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Re:The Dawn Of Cloud 2.0 And Why Google Started A Price War by patrickaljord on Sunday April 20, 2014 @07:54AM (#7616534)
Exactly. Plus Amazon is the market leader so they have little reasons to drop prices like that not to mention that as the article say, their other business (amazon.com) doesn't bring them huge profit. Google on the other hand doesn't care as Ads is their true money maker, they can afford to have little to no margin on their cloud offering.
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Re:The Dawn Of Cloud 2.0 And Why Google Started A Price War by saurik on Sunday April 20, 2014 @08:16AM (#7616571)
I actually hadn't noticed that Google's announcement (this year) also came as part of an event; touche!
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