> Literally 6 days ago when they introduced this thing.
Offering a new option is not a price increase. You can still do all the same things at the same prices, plus if the new thing is more efficient for your particular task you have an additional option.
When they introduced c6i they did it at the same price as c5, even though the c6i is a lot more efficient. They're raising the price on c7g vs. c6g to bring it closer to the pricing of c6i, which is pretty much exactly what I suggested?
Universally everyone understands "raising prices" to be - "raising prices without any customer action".
As in you consider your options, take into consideration pricing, design your architecture, you deploy it, and you get a bill. Then suddenly, later, without any action of your own, your bill goes up.
THAT is raising prices, and it is something AWS has essentially never done.
What you're describing is a situation where a customer CHOOSES to upgrade to a new generation of instances, and in doing so gets a larger bill. That is nowhere near the same thing.
I read the original post and didn't consider an interpretation other than Graviton would lose the Intel relative discount generation on generation. It'll take a decade for everyone to port their software after all.
