[peterwwillis]

So "improving customer experience" is really Amazon speak for "saving us money"

[BillinghamJ]

Makes it faster, reduces complexity and would allow them to reduce prices too

[dredmorbius]

Pricing is set by markets based on competitors' offerings. Reduced costs could simply result in monopoly rents.

[huac]

reduces incentive for them to raise prices

[sharpy]

And reduces chances of outages... which is good for both customers and AWS.

[rifung]

Do they not charge for network costs anyway?

A more optimistic view is that this allows them to provide a better service.

[BillinghamJ]

They charge for data transfer. They don't charge based on the level of complexity needed for their internal network operations.

[jcoq]

Everything is a tradeoff.