[darth_avocado]

Highly doubt that. MongoDB has 5000 well paid employees and is not a big loss making enterprise. If most of the cost was pass through to AWS, they’d not be able to do that. Their quarterly revenue is $500M+ but also spend $200M in sales and marketing and $180M in R&D. (All based on their filings)

[computerfan494]

You can look at this particular bill and observe that more than 50% of the cost was going to AWS.

[MagicMoonlight]

If they’re a reseller of AWS, which they will be, they decide the rates that get charged.

[computerfan494]

Yes, and my point is that this customer switching to running their own MongoDB instances on EC2 like Atlas does would reduce the bill by less than 50% because the rates that they are charging mean that their cut is less than what AWS is getting from this customer.