Should Amazon EC2 follow Moore’s Law?

heh. yes, they should, but I hope they don't. When they started (I was accepting customers before they were) they beat my prices soundly. I was able to lower prices to slightly below ec2 probably a year ago, and now, my prices are about half amazon.com.

Really, though, I don't think of it as lowering prices. I think of it as giving the customer more resources for the same price. The cost of ram and cpu (both capital costs, and recurring power costs) per unit is dropping rather fast, while the per-account overhead (a big deal for me, because my provisioning system sucks. probably less of a big deal for amazon.) remains about the same.