AWS melts Glacier prices to continue race to the bottom

The news Alibaba is stepping up its focus on the international markets will be some to worry, though AWS flexing its financial muscles to lower prices and capitalize on the sheer volume of customers it already has will make life difficult for the likes of Google, Microsoft and IBM who all have lofty ambitions in the public cloud segment.
AWS has announced this week it will be reducing prices for S3 Standard Storage and for Glacier storage, as well as introducing additional retrieval options for