Google setting a precedent for unstable cloud-compute billing

[John Wheeler]

I find it hard to believe you guys actually went though the data and saw the 500% jumps on the comparison reports and decided to release the pricing plan changes with such gusto. No one who signed up for App Engine ever saw that e-mail coming a mile away, and it hurts.

Here's a plain and simple idea that makes sense: Why not just keep the pricing the same and announce you're going to charge 2% increases each year to match for inflation?

[John Wheeler]

Also, bums me out that I saw you guys offering to help a customer with $27000 of resource usage or whatever. 

Since then I saw you've edited the post where you said to this customer, "We'll work through this with you"

What about your other customers like your $60 customers?

[Srirangan]

If I read correctly, moving from Python 2.5 -> 2.7 will reduce billing charges for everybody.

Hey Google, Why not introduce the new billing after introducing 2.7?

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[Angke]

Wow they really did this? Now I'm burnt. I won't deploy future apps on
App Engine and will slowly migrate the current ones away. This whole
thing is ridiculous. They could totally offer BestBuy $10000 monthly
bills while charging us $60s.

[Anders]

The inflation rate is over the long run insignificant compared to the
doubling of cost-performance each year. In 10 years that means 1000
times
cheaper computing power, storage and communication! So with a fixed
price
Google (and other cloud providers) can within a few years reach
astronomical
profit margins and hope that their customers don't understand
exponential
progress.

Here is some hard data about this:
http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-law-of-accelerating-returns