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by nijave 1807 days ago
Maybe this is more advanced, but just going off the screen shot it looks the same as Trusted Advisor https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/technology/trusted-adv...

If you have Enterprise Support, your TAMs can also help with cost and can arrange meetings and resources to address cost concerns, as well (including architectural reviews)

If you're not large enough for that to apply or don't plan for huge growth, personally, I'd strongly reconsider AWS. Amazon's APIs and infrastructure automation can give small teams a lot of leverage to run massive amounts of infrastructure and quickly scale, but things with a small, fixed set of infrastructure might be worth a look on VMs, etc

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> If you're not large enough for that to apply or don't plan for huge growth, personally, I'd strongly reconsider AWS. Amazon's APIs and infrastructure automation can give small teams a lot of leverage to run massive amounts of infrastructure and quickly scale, but things with a small, fixed set of infrastructure might be worth a look on VMs, etc

That doesn't make sense to me. Imagine you're paying ~$50,000/month for AWS and make good use of its features (of course if you're just running EC2 instances, using AWS adds little value). While that might sound costly, in my opinion it's still way too little to justify the additional $10,000/month Enterprise Support would cost. Using Enterprise Support would increase the bill by 20% in this case!

In my opinion Enterprise Support only makes sense if your monthly AWS bill is close to or more than $150,000/month, as otherwise Enterprise Support is a quite expensive additional item on the bill, or if you require the additional escalation possibilities in case of problems that come with Enterprise Support.

>don't plan for huge growth

imo it might make sense at that point to consider other options. AWS definitely isn't cheap and $50k/mon is a lot on infrastructure for "free" support. I don't think AWS Support makes sense at that price (unless you're going to heavily leverage it) but I'm also not sure running $50k infra on AWS makes a lot of sense either