[zaqokm]

> It has been heavily reported that AWS has cut their pricing quite a bit over the past few years. Yet, how many times has Heroku reduced its price?

This is the bit which confuses me. It is easy to think that there should be correlation between Heroku pricing and AWS pricing.

However just because AWS drops their pricing does not mean the capex for Heroku is dropping.

[bdcravens]

Even if there is a capex drop, Heroku's focus is simplicity. 5 or 10 cents an hour is part of the value prop; it may be hard to translate a 55.4 to 49.8 cent/hour drop for an AWS instance into their pricing model and not lose that simplicity.

[zaqokm]

> and not lose that simplicity.

Very interesting point