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A (lonely?) example of AWS playing catchup to GCP.

Don't forget S3-IA after we released Nearline. Also all those sudden price drops (particularly [1] the day after [2], and just last week the Glacier one [3] after Coldline [4]).

Everyone wins (or at least consumers of Cloud services) from this competition. So I'm glad to hear it!

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-price-reduction-42-ec2-...

[2] https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2014/03/google-cloud-pl...

[3] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/category/amazon-glacier/

[4] https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/10/introducing-Col...

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.

> Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.

I think our big clue was when you said "after we released Nearline". ;)

I know you're just joking, but I have honestly considered moving the Disclosure line to the top. Besides, maybe folks in Search and Ads can take pride in Cloud, too ;).

I appreciated the disclosure...I admit I just didn't even know what Nearline is!

My first thought was the mainframe tape robot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RU8wASddKig.

People in Search and Ads consider the Cloud more of a pocket change sized hobby ;-)

Context: https://cloud.google.com/resource-manager/docs/creating-mana...

Not lonely. GCP is doing several good things. (disclosure: I worked at AWS for 6 years; I think I know the space a bit).

This seems like a small tweak on IAM and consolidated billing which AWS had first, didn't they?

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