These prices really seem to be aimed at the "those who can pay" market. What I'm surprised at is the 99.99% uptime - I thought given their foray into telecoms they'd be offering some very complex cluster-driven solution to go higher on uptime.
My guess is this is a way to commercialize their snap packages and auto updates (plus reboot-less kernel updates) in an market where the alternative would be to hire sysadmins, and therefore they benchmark their pricing on that basis. One VM is cheaper than your first sysadmin, then they're an approved supplier so you go back for more and more.
My guess is this is a way to commercialize their snap packages and auto updates (plus reboot-less kernel updates) in an market where the alternative would be to hire sysadmins, and therefore they benchmark their pricing on that basis. One VM is cheaper than your first sysadmin, then they're an approved supplier so you go back for more and more.