Amazon re-prices S3

For any utility, profitability hinges on using your capital assets - your installed capacity - as efficiently as possible, and the way you do that is through sophisticated pricing schedules. In essence, you want to reward those customers whose usage patterns allow you to use your installed capacity efficiently (by cutting their prices) while penalizing those customers whose usage patterns undermine your ability to use your installed capacity efficiently ... Full Story »

Posted by Kaizar Campwala
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Posted by: Posted by Kaizar Campwala - May 2, 2007 - 10:54 AM PDT
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Jim Lang
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by Jim Lang - Oct. 1, 2008

Provides an interesting but somewhat one sided economic analysis of Amazon's new S3 prices.

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Kaizar Campwala
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by Kaizar Campwala - Oct. 1, 2008
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