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by freak42 239 days ago
They saved $500k on what total sum? $500'001 or 55'000'000? Without this info the post is moot.
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That's a great point. Sometimes we look for architecture or technology solutions for a problem that could be easily solved at the sales level by negotiating a PPA (Private Pricing Addendum) with AWS.
I suspect it's a massive amount, as S3 is one of the cheaper services. As we evaluate moving all of our compute off of AWS, S3 (and SQS) are probably services we'll retain because they are still amazing values.