This was more a response to the comment I replied to, that cloud is always more expensive. And saying it more for everyone, not OP.
It's almost always less expensive at the start, which is super important for the early stages of a company (your capital costs are basically zero when choosing say AWS).
Then after you're established, it's still cheaper when considering opportunity costs (minor improvements in margin aren't usually the thing that will 10x a company's value, and adding headcount has a real cost).
But then your uniqueness as a company will come into play and there will be some outsized expense that seems obscene for the value you get. For the article writer, it was S3, for the OP, it's bandwidth. For me it's lambdas (and bizarrely, cloud watch alarms). That's when you need to have a hard look and negotiate. Sometimes the standard pricing model really doesn't consider how you're using a certain service, after all it's configured to optimize revenue in the general case. That doesn't mean the provider isn't going to be willing to take a much lower margin on that service if you explain why the pricing model is an issue for you.
It's almost always less expensive at the start, which is super important for the early stages of a company (your capital costs are basically zero when choosing say AWS).
Then after you're established, it's still cheaper when considering opportunity costs (minor improvements in margin aren't usually the thing that will 10x a company's value, and adding headcount has a real cost).
But then your uniqueness as a company will come into play and there will be some outsized expense that seems obscene for the value you get. For the article writer, it was S3, for the OP, it's bandwidth. For me it's lambdas (and bizarrely, cloud watch alarms). That's when you need to have a hard look and negotiate. Sometimes the standard pricing model really doesn't consider how you're using a certain service, after all it's configured to optimize revenue in the general case. That doesn't mean the provider isn't going to be willing to take a much lower margin on that service if you explain why the pricing model is an issue for you.