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Dropbox does not pay the amounts advertised on Amazon's website, you can be sure of that :)
is that based on a hunch or is there a source for that? (or similar precedent)
> It's not so much a hunch as it is common sense
So you are completely right, he cited no source.
The point being - Microsoft's biggest headache is catching up with AWS on the tooling and documentation. They seem to be going all out in competing with every vertical that AWS has, but that might not be the best approach as they might endup spreading themselves too thin.
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is that based on a hunch or is there a source for that? (or similar precedent)
I can't believe you got downvoted for that. And the person you replied to replies with > It's not so much a hunch as it is common sense So you are completely right, he cited no source.
But even for smaller amounts, if you sell 150K of goods per year through a reseller, and you pay a standard fee, it never hurts to e-mail them and negotiate a tighter deal. If you manage to shave off 1%, that's $1500 (clean profit). Say you pay 5%, you can apply pressure by saying you could get a better deal somewhere else, or implement their service yourself for that money.
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is that based on a hunch or is there a source for that? (or similar precedent)
It's not so much a hunch as it is common sense. When you subscribe to a service for hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars per month, then you can be certain that if you call them for a discount, they will pick up, and do business with you.
People aren't attracted to AWS because it is cheap, they are attracted to it for other reasons. When I left Softlayer, the retention specialist I talked to told me that AWS didn't give me free bandwidth, but I told him I wasn't worried about bandwidth costs on AWS because these scaled with my revenue and were a small fraction of it.
Looks like amazon might be afraid that Dropbox has plans to potentially build their own server infrastructure.
Dropbox does not pay the amounts advertised on Amazon's website, you can be sure of that :)
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AWS is well-known for not negotiating at all on prices - everyone gets the same deal.
Please don't spread lies..
Bezos made a decision to not negotiate with individual customers, and there are pros and cons to that decision.