The comment you replied to says:

> We are still on exponential curves for compute and storage and DC bandwidth.

So what’s the angle here, power makes up so much of the service or the cost of power has increased so much that it warrants doubling the price for managed databases?

at least for me in uk the cost of power has almost doubled the beginning of this year, and is expected to rise another 50% in october (the gov limits how much they can jump every 6 months).

so i kind of agree with the other poster, power has got so expensive i would expect prices to be going up. (add onto this manufacturing and supply chain issues and replacing hardware isnt cheap either).

the gov limits how much they can jump every 6 months -> only for residential customers. Business customers do not have this cap.

Nobody’s arguing that power has gotten more expensive. Or that replacing hardware costs money.

Badly put. Only that the cost might well not drop. Whether it needs to rise significantly I don't know.