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This is interesting: We've heard from our customers, if you cross $100,000 a month on AWS, they'll negotiate your bill down," said Polvi. "If you cross a milli
by swamp40 8y ago
This is interesting:
We've heard from our customers, if you cross $100,000 a month on AWS, they'll negotiate your bill down," said Polvi. "If you cross a million a month, they'll no longer negotiate with you because they know you're so locked that you're not going anywhere. That's the level where we're trying to provide some relief.
- bgroins 8y agoAs someone who has negotiated with AWS at the $1m/month level this is completely false.
- CodeWriter23 8y agoHow much did they move on the price?
- Someone1234 8y agoI've also negotiated with AWS, and both your position and their position strikes me as equally true. There's certain products of theirs that they just aren't going to negotiate on, because they know they've got you, whereas others the clouds part and discounts rain down. It certainly used to be this way when AWS had less competition, these days there's an Azure/Oracle Cloud/Rackspace/Google/etc alternative to most of their greatest hits, which gives a greater negotiating edge.
- redisman 8y agoLambda certainly has more alternatives than Dynamo for example. But I guess the true lock-in is the integration. If you use Lambda, chances are you'll end up choosing S3 and SQS and Dynamo and API Gateway etc.
- outworlder 8y ago"If you cross a million a month, they'll no longer negotiate with you because they know you're so locked that you're not going anywhere" If they think you are unable to move at all, that may be true. The tone changes once you realize that either you can move, or you can't, but there's a lot more business coming and they won't get it.