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Yeah, but this is the equivalent of Costco raising food court prices to match real production costs. Costco would never do that, of course, because they understand how a loss leader works. The real solution is to reduce costs using vertical integration, so if AWS storage is your main cost driver then start building your own data centers. Instead, this move will harm their best customer acquisition channel, negatively affecting long-term growth.


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