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by rfoo 619 days ago
> pricing is astronomical. you also have to "contact sales" to get access to anything outside of a free trial

You don't have to contact sales if you are a Chinese-speaking customer. And pricing is fine. ByteDance has a different brand for their cloud services in China: https://www.volcengine.com/ [1]. But of course the underlying infrastructure are all the same.

This is very likely done by a Chinese customer using ByteDance's cloud service.

[1] Well, Alibaba Cloud did this too, and ByteDance is copying Alibaba 1:1 (who in turn is copying AWS) so I'm not surprised. But at least Alibaba named their international brand "Alibaba Cloud" and their CN one "AliCloud", similar enough.