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> AWS has a healthy margin to continue to offer _strategic price cuts_ only when necessary I’ve never seen a non-strategic price cut. :)
A: Cutting prices whenever costs go down
B: Cutting prices only when competitors do so
Storage price reductions slowing down or even coming to a halt makes me wonder what this means for "infinite storage" companies. I'm talking services like Facebook, Youtube, that are "free" (ad supported) where on a daily basis an absurd amount of new content is added, yet almost nothing ever removed. If storage needs grow endlessly yet storage costs stopped going down, wouldn't that mean that the model in the long t…
Once ancient content no longer produces enough ad revenue for the companies storing it, I suspect they will support it only in paid tiers for users who really want it. Something like this is already happening in Google's paid tiers: each user is valuable as part of Google's advertising audience, but the economics no longer make sense once those users keep many GB on Google's servers.
It's also quite telling how in most of these services, old content is very well hidden in the UI and sometimes near impossible to get to.
So while I do agree with AWS pricing structure has changed in recent years. I dont see how the Data shown correlate to that conclusion.
You can use SeaweedFS Remote Object Store Gateway to cache S3 (or any S3 API compatible vendors) to local servers, and access them at local network speed, and asynchronously sync back to S3.
https://github.com/chrislusf/seaweedfs/wiki/Gateway-to-Remot...
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Big projects get custom discounts; there's a whole different pricing game for huge customers.
Or they make lots of money and choose not to care.
And like come on originally the alternative was hiring employees and managers for those employees and dealing with human error and deception overlapping with the guilt of exploiting them, the whole management game. Difficult to find true leadership, and a work-ethic shared between manager and employee. And the education I got in the nineties and noughts was made for desk jobs with stationary, not computers.
Sometimes automation alone is fine. Even on a computer that hasn't been reset in fifty years and is obsolete according to everyone else, hey if it does the trick. Make sure it stays powered. Cobol. Does the trick. Nuclear plants, they use really old software, one using very new software and connected to the internet was hit by the Morris Worm.
I literally picked up a 32 ounce rock on the street that was intended, judging by its shape and way it was cut out of cement and pebble composite, for stoning. Like for Biblical harlots. It was left behind right after a protest was cleared one Friday afternoon on Portugal and Alameda, Santiago Centro, Santiago Chile. Found it Friday like in April, at 22:16. I roam, I checked out the scene--as is my wont--to see what's up, different graffiti on the walls, and then whoops don't see a lot of pint-sized rocks on the sidewalk, somebody might trip, better clear it. Took it home. Realized I should have worn gloves. Next time I went to hang out in front of the police station I told them about it, hey you could do forensics I said, they're like uh no wrong station for forensics, uh...thanks for clearing it away, those are meant for cops.
I got stoned with similar rocks after watching cops on motorcycles retreat from a mob, didn't click that mob was throwing rocks, kind of aiming at whatever that moved, and fuck did I then move, I sprinted away to safety before the gates closed on me. Luckily I didn't take a direct hit, none nailed me.
But the moral of the story is this: nothing about being tens or hundreds or thousands or in this case millions of years old renders it ineffective as a weapon. Same laws of physics. Same gravity. Muscle equal strength. Rock is just as hard now as it was then. Harder than my skull. Death is bad. Bad then, and bad now.
AWS's pricing strategy changed a few years ago. Previously, they'd drop prices aggressively with much fanfare every time they did. Nowadays, they almost never drop prices, but release new offerings they say will save money [for certain use cases]: - Gravitron 2 is slightly cheaper than Intel instances, with a greater price/performance ratio—at least for some applications. - m6i is same price as m5, but new generation…
This is how every market player is incentivized to behave, apart from regulatory authorities acting to prosecute monopolistic behavior. 1. Price and compete aggressively to grow market share, put competitors out of business, and even transform the market, if possible 2. Once you become the dominant player (i.e. a monopoly), raise prices (or don't lower them) as much as possible without damaging your market position T…
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already happening. ever notice youtube videos with low view counts take a really long time to load?
Presages an interesting digital future in which nothing ever truly goes away, it just gets slower and slower. An endless inner migration that never quite hits the stopping point, and which could theoretically be reversed if only the slowed content garnered enough attention.
From a more zoomed out look, you could simplify it to only two speeds. The fast speed taking 0-15 seconds, and the slow speed taking minutes to hours. Any content that's been accessed once or twice in the last week or month would be on the normal tiers. Extremely dead content could fall to the tape tier, but it has nowhere further to fall, and it would take only a tiny amount of activity to rescue it.
I don't really see a reason for there to be a continuous falloff in speed. There's not really anything between hard drives and tape for responsiveness, either existing or proposed, that I'm aware of. Nor is there anything slower than tapes.
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I disagree, I’m still in the datacenter storage business and our service delivery costs have been going down. You have to look at the service as a whole… nvme let us retire frames, etc. I think hyperscale margins are high, and I think between the many tiers of storage and backend technology they are constantly cooking cost out.
But still content keeps growing, and income per user won't. Doesn't that mean that at one point you're out of runway?
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There would be exabytes of content on youtube over 5 years old with under 20 views. Stuff no one will miss when its gone.
Except people that use YT as a family video archive