For my tiny startup, the cloud is two to three orders of magnitude cheaper. We could not exist were it not for the cloud, AWS in particular. Last week I had a

For my tiny startup, the cloud is two to three orders of magnitude cheaper. We could not exist were it not for the cloud, AWS in particular. Last week I had a call with the AWS support team helping me get some costs under control with improved architecture and optimizing how I pay for compute. Based on our chat, I believe I can reduce costs by a third, which for us means multiple more months of runway, critical time to find P/M fit. At my old job, cloud costs were out of control, mostly because there was a huge effort to “lift and shift” the existing systems, rather than redesign them with the cloud in mind.