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In previous companies I've seen AWS and Azure do the same for >$10k bills from small startups. 1x$10,000 invoice is no where near as much as a lifetime of hosting a unicorn startup. Most cloud providers will even give you $50k to $100k in credits for 1 year if you are a startup from a good incubator/investor. It gives you incentives to not to care about how much you're spending. By the 1 year mark you're probably making some money, raising another series, and attempting to dramatically scale up your business so now you don't have the time to clean up the tech debt you've created to lower costs. They are absolutely making a bunch of money this way.