[jxm262]

I highly doubt AWS will go "pop". They're still leading the market by a huge margin. I moved on to AWS last year and still haven't found anything else comparable that I'm more comfortable with. One thing I'd love to see though is maybe some sub-set or preconfiguration of aws that's more developer friendly. Some sort of Heroku type thing that still allows access to the box to change/add everything as needed. I sometimes feel that I'm spending too much time doing the little server admin tasks when I'd prefer to just focus on development. I dunno, just a thought I've been having..

Anyway the constant price lowering by all these companies will be interesting to see play out.

[outside1234]

The thing is - if Google and Microsoft keep pressuring Amazon on price, its possible that they could run Amazon out of cash and into a crisis all other things equal. The large numbers that Amazon is running up could actually work against them in this sense.

It will be interesting to see how Amazon responds - do they raise prices in their retail operations to raise more cash?