back to article Amazon SLASHES hosted database prices

Just a week after the service became generally available, Amazon has slashed the cost of running databases in its cloud by as much as 27 per cent, putting pressure on rivals to do the same. The major price reductions to its Relational Database Service (AWS RDS) were announced by Amazon on Tuesday following graduation of the …

COMMENTS

This topic is closed for new posts.
  1. Mephistro
    Joke

    "Amazon has slashed the cost of running databases in its cloud by as much as 27 per cent"

    That must be the American Govt. subsidies put to good use.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Go

      Amazon Special Offer !

      Sign up today and get a free PRISM.

      1. Francis Boyle Silver badge

        Beat me by "that" much*

        Have an upvote.**

        *Where's the Maxwell smart icon?

        **Have another for the username.

  2. ceebee
    Mushroom

    well I was just going to say...

    exactly what the others have said but it highlights the problem facing all "cloud" vendors.

    PRISM has dealt a serious blow to their marketing strategies and Amazon is not on the offical PRISM list but can anyone trust anything now.

    aaaaaagh!

This topic is closed for new posts.

Other stories you might like