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I can't even get my head around paying $500,000/month--for anything. I'm really out of this new economy. What would use this much computing power, besides bit

• chrisseaton 11y ago
  You don't think any traditional economy companies pay $500k a month for anything? How much do you think airlines spend on fuel a month for example?
  • tacos 11y ago
    Do people really think AWS got to be a 10 billion dollar business by hosting node.js to garage door opener gateways? When situations like this come up I always suggest people read the history of Western Electric. Talk about scale!
• awsnegotiate 11y ago
  The median AWS based SaaS company spends around 6% of their revenue on AWS. (this compares to a median of 7% for those who choose to manage their own servers). As such, $500k/mo isn't a terribly elite club. Essentially every SaaS company that does more than $10MM/mo of revenue is spending as much or more than we are.