[longtermd]

I'm extremely interested in "cutting AWS costs by 50%". We already downscaled out EC2 and RDS by about 50% by ourselves.

However, I'm really interested in hearing how you negotiate that bill again? Are there free AWS credits? The AWS Support seems really hard to reach

[Dunedan]

You should check out AWS Activate [1] which is AWS' startup program.

[1]: https://aws.amazon.com/activate/