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Comment by marcinzm | Hacker News Reader

I don't offhand remember AWS increasing prices for a service before but I might be wrong. How often does Google increase prices?

For a business I prefer a company that starts with higher prices and then only lowers them to one that may increase them at any time.

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Having worked for AWS, one of the things we got a lot push back from was offering something free and then walk back from it.

AWS really strongly focuses on gaining customer trust, and they will only lower price, and never increase price. They won't turn off things until the last customer stops using it (they might stop new customers from onboarding)

I did not enjoy working for AWS so I left pretty fast, but some of the customer obsession there really impressed me.

For a AWS product manager, pricing is a one-way door once you cross it there is no way back from it you.

I was wondering the same thing. Nothing comes to mind but there are enough services I don't use that its easily possible something slipped through.

AWS lowering compute costs is fairly largely shared, but I am curious if anyone has compiled a list of the cloud providers (AWS, Azure, and GCC) increasing the costs of services.

they added IPv4 address rental costs earlier this year, nearly doubling the cost of a small VM

with no IPv6 option (of course)

Google Maps, GCE, this the second time I see Google increase price on highly important parts of business. On the third case it will be a trend.

Makes me rethink whether I want to do any business with Google anymore.

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