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1. At which point does it become cheaper for AWS to offer discounts to customers rather than optimizing their spend? 2. At which point does it become cheaper f

• belthesar 4y ago
  Optimizing spend for a customer is also optimizing capacity, which is indeed finite. By optimizing spend with right-sizing and such, they lose a very small amount upfront, but can increase customer density, which is a much more sustainable data point for modeling capacity growth. More customers on the platform is more opportunity for larger growth at a sustainable pace that they can scale capacity for.
• dilyevsky 4y ago
  1. "optimizing the spend" is probably overengineering some insane Rube Goldberg machine which locks you in more and commits in engineering resources which could be spent thinking about moving to a different cloud / onprem 2. See 1. WAI