[throwaway343233]

Pricing makes sense if you consider how Amazon operates at this point.

You put basically a MVP product out there with abnormal pricing. Your enterprise customers that are drowning in money can start using it and using that money you can grow your org by hiring more engineers. At this point you start working on adding new features and do cost optimization. Since your whole architecture was designed based on "we have to ship this ASAP", you deliver some real nice cost reduction easily. Then you reflect this to your customers and gain goodwill and good PR.

[andrewstuart2]

And let's be honest. We all know a company or two that would throw _way_ more than 45k/year at a global metrics solution to handle that volume, and still wind up with a flaming scrap heap. And a promotion or two.

[ec109685]

I don’t think any company is drowning in money. Everyone has a budget they are working against. At the end of the day, you can bite an engineer or pay aws more. It’s all a trade off.