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Outbound fees also protect their computing business. They make it harder to take part of workloads to cheap providers such as Hetzner or OVH.
by jpalomaki 6y ago
Outbound fees also protect their computing business. They make it harder to take part of workloads to cheap providers such as Hetzner or OVH.
- nakodari 6y agoPerhaps they can offer something like "Commit to using AWS for the next 5-10 years and get 80% discount on outbound bandwidth". Something like that would make a lot of sense for startups like ours. We want to stay with AWS but the rising cost is making it really difficult to grow faster. If we grow fast, AWS gets more business from us, it's a win-win situation.
- enitihas 6y ago5-10 years is insanely long for a startup. Few startups even survive 10 years.