Thanks for the correction on this -- I'll update the article with correct info. I'm not a Prime subscriber and the information on Prime benefits are completely intransparent.
And if I can't easily figure that out, it's unlikely that average consumer Joe will. The perceived value of each offering is the point here.
They're probably opaque, as well.
Between that and https://ec2instances.info/, I can figure out the vast majority of what I need to know about costs on AWS.
What are the gaps that you see?
“You are charged for each hour or partial hour that an Application Load Balancer is running and the number of Load Balancer Capacity Units (LCU) used per hour.”
Go here and see how “LCUs” are computed: https://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/pricing/
A rather obvious gap is this one - How much will an i3.xlarge with an extra 2TiB of storage cost you per month on AWS?
Ah yes. The creed of American media: The truth doesn't matter. All that matters is what the masses can be convinced to believe.
This statement regarding "perceived value" has nothing to do with "American media", "fake news" truth distorting or even politics.
It's baffling that you have chosen to stake such claims on the author.
Perceived value pricing is actually a marketing strategy. Its used in factoring pricing for everything from gym memberships, to luxury good and delivery services.
see: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/perceived-value.asp