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Thomas Vachon
Personal blog · stayclassyinternet.comprogrammingeconomics
Thomas Vachon's personal blog at stayclassyinternet.com covers programming and economics. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its analysis of AWS pricing over time, including price curves. Commenters cite it in cloud-cost threads, and one notes its conclusion that S3 has only ever gotten cheaper.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A simple and clean responsive Jekyll theme for words and photos.
Most-linked posts?
- /articles/investigating-AWS-pricing-over-time/4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-11-18
What Hacker News says?
This is an analysis from 2018ish - https://www.stayclassyinternet.com/articles/investigating-AW...
Comment linking /articles/investigating-AWS-pricing-over-time/
on “AWS Lambda pricing now per ms”Check out these curves: https://www.stayclassyinternet.com/articles/investigating-AW... Amazon competes with other cloud providers and with build-your-own continually, and use price segmentation to stay on the right side of the equation for as many people as possible, while still skimming as much premium for themselves from each user group. Historically, that’s meant big price drops in most categories that would mak…
Comment linking /articles/investigating-AWS-pricing-over-time/
on “Dropbox saved $75M over two years by building its own infrastructure (2018)”https://www.stayclassyinternet.com/articles/investigating-AW... concludes S3 has only ever gotten cheaper, but this isn't quite true. On 2007-06-01 [1] they lowered their data transfer charges but added a per-request charge. Depending on your workload this could have been a price increase. But this was sixteen years ago and I'm having trouble thinking of anything since. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20070502160305…
Comment linking /articles/investigating-AWS-pricing-over-time/
on “BigQuery prices increasing by more than 100% for many users”> What does “similar to Google” mean? All for profit companies? AWS has a reputation for not raising prices [1, 2, 3]. Presumably this is a deliberate business strategy - customers are much more willing to risk vendor lock-in when they're pretty sure they won't get screwed over. So given the context, I assume "companies similar to Google" means "corporate IT vendors that haven't chosen a never-increase-prices strate…
Comment linking /articles/investigating-AWS-pricing-over-time/
on “BigQuery prices increasing by more than 100% for many users”
