The move comes as Microsoft officially launches its Windows Azure cloud computing platform as a pay service, prompting some industry watchers to see the AWS rate decrease as a signal of a price war ...
The price drop follows AWS reducing the cost of its CloudFront offering in June and a previous AWS price drop in February that included Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon SQS, Amazon RDS ...
AWS was the star of the retail giant's Q3 earnings report, with sales in the cloud business growing 20% year-over-year.