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>That’s very close to single-digit-percentage utilization - I understand why Amazon is avoiding re-negotiating that contract, it’s literally free money. There'
by tsol 4y ago
>That’s very close to single-digit-percentage utilization - I understand why Amazon is avoiding re-negotiating that contract, it’s literally free money.
There's another reason for them to avoid this-- to not create the precedence that people can get out of contracts if they decide they don't like them anymore. If they let someone do this, even a big player like Twitter, that could lead to a lot of trouble in the future with other players trying to re-negotiate
- comte7092 4y agoIt’s like a smaller scale replay of Elon trying to back of his agreement to purchase Twitter last year.
- fwlr 4y agoA half-billion-dollar contract is almost certainly going to have re-negotiation procedures specified within (Amazon would naturally be worried that Twitter could easily over-use the services, so they’d want provisions to change the contract in the direction of higher costs - which Twitter would obviously only agree to if the provisions were symmetric). Most likely these provisions exist but aren’t all that binding when it comes to forcing the parties to come to the table and Amazon is dragging their feet on entering the re-negotiation clauses so they can have more months or years of the free money contract.