> Compute is what makes your cloud bill so high. This is simply flat-out not true for 90% of non-AI workloads, both on the startup and enterprise side, and thi

> Compute is what makes your cloud bill so high. This is simply flat-out not true for 90% of non-AI workloads, both on the startup and enterprise side, and this makes me question the entire article. With compute, you generally have a lot of wiggle room and levers you can pull to optimize your pricing. Even with storage, you can do things like bulk loading, caching, etc to reduce transaction counts. But, with traffic (not just including egress, but also inter-VPC/region traffic)? You're just kinda stuck! or at least until better dramatically compression comes along which doesn't spike things on the compute/memory side of things. In general, compared to other hosting providers, these three (AWS, Azure, GCP) have insanely expensive traffic costs -- an order of magnitude higher than their smaller competition! To make matters worse, egress negotiations are taken off the table before you even get started when discussing enterprise discounts. Be careful when getting started using Activate etc startup funds... that money disappears insanely fast.