Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars

#1

Post by jasonkester » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 10:16 AM UTC

Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars
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Re: Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars

#2

Post by NeutronBoy » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 11:19 AM UTC

EDIT: Well that will teach me to read more closely! Continue below if you want to see me make an idiot of myself. Turns out I missed the point

So as I type this the votes are charging up the ranks (about 10 votes since I started typing this comment), so let me start off:

I can't possibly see how this is Amazon's fault. You're arguing that you offer a service for free (for a little while anyway), and that more people are taking you up on that because they have logs lying around, because Amazon has prompted them in the past to save these logs?

I mean, shouldn't this help your service?

a) now people can try it out because they already have logs and don't have to wait (which you've already identified was an issue), and

b) now people will end up with a bucket full of logs, think 'how can I analyse and use these logs', and go looking for a product like yours!

Re: Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars

#3

Post by whiskers » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 11:20 AM UTC

NeutronBoy wrote: post #2

EDIT: Well that will teach me to read more closely! Continue below if you want to see me make an idiot of myself. Turns out I missed the point So as I type this the votes are charging up the ranks (about 10 votes since I started typing this comment), so let me start off: I can't possibly see how this is Amazon's fault. You're arguing that you offer a service for free (for a little while anyway), and that more people…

I think you may not have read the whole post in detail. It's a positive post about an unexpected bonus from Amazons' change in default behaviour!

Re: Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars

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Post by koolba » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 11:21 AM UTC

NeutronBoy wrote: post #2

EDIT: Well that will teach me to read more closely! Continue below if you want to see me make an idiot of myself. Turns out I missed the point So as I type this the votes are charging up the ranks (about 10 votes since I started typing this comment), so let me start off: I can't possibly see how this is Amazon's fault. You're arguing that you offer a service for free (for a little while anyway), and that more people…

> I can't possibly see how this is Amazon's fault. You're arguing that you offer a service for free (for a little while anyway), and that more people are taking you up on that because they have logs lying around, because Amazon has prompted them in the past to save these logs?

You've got it backwards. The OP is saying that due to AWS UI changes, it's more likely that user's will have logging enabled, thus showing more value for s3stat. This leads to more subscriptions. It's a positive piece, not a negative!

Re: Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars

#5

Post by NeutronBoy » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 11:22 AM UTC

whiskers wrote: post #3

NeutronBoy wrote: post #2

EDIT: Well that will teach me to read more closely! Continue below if you want to see me make an idiot of myself. Turns out I missed the point So as I type this the votes are charging up the ranks (about 10 votes since I started typing this comment), so let me start off: I can't possibly see how this is Amazon's fault. You're arguing that you offer a service for free (for a little while anyway), and that more people…

I think you may not have read the whole post in detail. It's a positive post about an unexpected bonus from Amazons' change in default behaviour!

Well shit. I read the whole thing, not close enough apparently!

Re: Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars

#6

Post by m-app » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 11:29 AM UTC

NeutronBoy wrote: post #2

EDIT: Well that will teach me to read more closely! Continue below if you want to see me make an idiot of myself. Turns out I missed the point So as I type this the votes are charging up the ranks (about 10 votes since I started typing this comment), so let me start off: I can't possibly see how this is Amazon's fault. You're arguing that you offer a service for free (for a little while anyway), and that more people…

Although I mostly skimmed the article, I have to say that the feeling I got from the article changed a couple of times between positive v. negative. This left me confused and because of that I guess I missed the point as well.

Re: Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars

#7

Post by nbevans » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 11:29 AM UTC

Such a shame that Azure Blob Storage doesn't support "default pages" i.e. index.html

Then it could be used for static web site hosting just like S3 :(

Re: Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars

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Post by markwillis82 » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 11:44 AM UTC

As a recently new customer to AWS. This service sounds really useful.

Quite possibly one of the best pricing pages[1] I've seen in a while too.

[1] https://www.s3stat.com/Pricing.aspx

Re: Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars

#9

Post by vertex-four » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 11:48 AM UTC

m-app wrote: post #6

NeutronBoy wrote: post #2

EDIT: Well that will teach me to read more closely! Continue below if you want to see me make an idiot of myself. Turns out I missed the point So as I type this the votes are charging up the ranks (about 10 votes since I started typing this comment), so let me start off: I can't possibly see how this is Amazon's fault. You're arguing that you offer a service for free (for a little while anyway), and that more people…

Although I mostly skimmed the article, I have to say that the feeling I got from the article changed a couple of times between positive v. negative. This left me confused and because of that I guess I missed the point as well.

It was written in a format I'm used to seeing as "grumpy rant", mostly, and much of the language used was overwhelmingly neutral.

Re: Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars

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Post by sealjam » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 11:48 AM UTC

m-app wrote: post #6

NeutronBoy wrote: post #2

EDIT: Well that will teach me to read more closely! Continue below if you want to see me make an idiot of myself. Turns out I missed the point So as I type this the votes are charging up the ranks (about 10 votes since I started typing this comment), so let me start off: I can't possibly see how this is Amazon's fault. You're arguing that you offer a service for free (for a little while anyway), and that more people…

Although I mostly skimmed the article, I have to say that the feeling I got from the article changed a couple of times between positive v. negative. This left me confused and because of that I guess I missed the point as well.

I don't know whether the title has changed since your comment but I fail to see how "Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of Dollars" could ever be a negative story.