WeChat is raising prices maliciously, affecting millions of developers
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So open source is a big trend, and Tencent Cloud developed open source alternatives https://github.com/labring/laf also because of this incident
This does not have anything to do with open source
Profit would seem to be the default explanation. For malice the burden of proof is yours. The size of the increase isn't good evidence of malice since it is generally consistent with the profit motive.
Yes, many cloud vendors like to cultivate developer habits first, bind developers, and start to consider raising prices to make money when the volume reaches a certain scale. At this time, it is not easy for developers to migrate away. Commonly known as cutting leeks
The market price of storage space (OSS) is in the range of 0.003 - 0.005. After the price increase, the price of WeChat is 25 times the market price; storage space is only one of the indicators, and the price increase of other indicators up to 50 times is even more outrageous!
As a developer, you can accept normal commercial price increases, but this kind of price increase that is dozens of times higher than the market price cannot be tolerated; if you are also using the "WeChat Cloud Development" service, what you can do now:
Migrate to other cloud service providers as soon as possible Complaining/reporting to the Municipal Supervision Bureau, this is a malicious price increase, not a normal commercial price increase