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How to not pay full price on AWS? We pay $10K+ per month and nobody gives us any discount.

BozeWolf 1y ago
To be fair, for aws that is hobbyist numbers. We (400 people data company) pay 10 times that amount. Let alone big enterprises. We do get discount, but it wont make it cheap.
- bargle0 1y ago
  What kind of hobby do you have where you’re spending $10k/month?
  - m00x 1y ago
    I see you've never heard of Warhammer 40k
    - trenchpilgrim 1y ago
      I see you haven't heard of SLA printers
- lobsterthief 1y ago
  There’s a lot of middleground between hobbyists and your company’s use ;) Most mid-sized publishers I’ve worked with are in the $4-10k/mo range depending on CDN availability
  - BozeWolf 1y ago
    Of course, I agree. My point is that the parent I was replying to replied to “only hobbyists pay full price on aws”. The parent was expecting to get a discount on a 10k monthly bill. It is a lot of money, but not to AWS. You probably wont get (much) discount on 10k a month.
    - genewitch 1y ago
      upthread: "[No one] pays full price" later: "no one who spends more than $10k/month pays full price" curious, that no one says what their bills are when they say "40-60% discount", right? This thread started because someone mentioned dell/netapp because they were half the price of AWS, all-in. I notice a lot of threads do this, lately. Not this topic, but topics in general.
- stackedinserter 1y ago
  Holy shit, it's brutal. What do you sell and how many customers do you have?
skywhopper 1y ago
The good discounts start around 100x your spend.
- ghshephard 1y ago
  If you are comfortable with making a commit 1-3 year commit - you can get 27-50% discounts at pretty much any spend I think. https://aws.amazon.com/savingsplans/compute-pricing/ https://aws.amazon.com/savingsplans/compute-pricing/
  - throwaway-aws9 1y ago
    Right, but depending on your workload, compute might just be 1/3 to 1/2 of your spend. The remainder going on storage, networking (egress and internal between regions & AZs), LBs, and higher abstraction services (from queues to search to serverless). Feels great to talk about 27-50% but turns out it's 9%-16% when all is said and done. You can get commitment savings on other services but you need higher spend. Feels odd that big cloud gives better discounts to enterprise. They really don't cater to startups as much as they posture.
- stackedinserter 1y ago
  You pay $1 million per month for AWS?
antonkochubey 1y ago
Savings plans and reserved instances will get you at least 50% off EC2, RDS, and some other things
mannyv 1y ago
You talk to your account rep to do a guaranteed spend in exchange for a discount. Some services get large discounts, some don’t. Depends on utilization. For 10k you should get a lot.
enz 1y ago
At previous $WORK we had similar bills. Our Account Manager got us some deals on S3 storage and egress fee (via CloudFront), in exchange for some usage commitment. It was AWS Europe though, it may be different in the US.

To be fair, for aws that is hobbyist numbers. We (400 people data company) pay 10 times that amount. Let alone big enterprises. We do get discount, but it wont make it cheap.

bargle0 1y ago
What kind of hobby do you have where you’re spending $10k/month?
- m00x 1y ago
  I see you've never heard of Warhammer 40k
  - trenchpilgrim 1y ago
    I see you haven't heard of SLA printers
lobsterthief 1y ago
There’s a lot of middleground between hobbyists and your company’s use ;) Most mid-sized publishers I’ve worked with are in the $4-10k/mo range depending on CDN availability
- BozeWolf 1y ago
  Of course, I agree. My point is that the parent I was replying to replied to “only hobbyists pay full price on aws”. The parent was expecting to get a discount on a 10k monthly bill. It is a lot of money, but not to AWS. You probably wont get (much) discount on 10k a month.
  - genewitch 1y ago
    upthread: "[No one] pays full price" later: "no one who spends more than $10k/month pays full price" curious, that no one says what their bills are when they say "40-60% discount", right? This thread started because someone mentioned dell/netapp because they were half the price of AWS, all-in. I notice a lot of threads do this, lately. Not this topic, but topics in general.
stackedinserter 1y ago
Holy shit, it's brutal. What do you sell and how many customers do you have?

skywhopper 1y ago

The good discounts start around 100x your spend.

ghshephard 1y ago
If you are comfortable with making a commit 1-3 year commit - you can get 27-50% discounts at pretty much any spend I think. https://aws.amazon.com/savingsplans/compute-pricing/ https://aws.amazon.com/savingsplans/compute-pricing/
- throwaway-aws9 1y ago
  Right, but depending on your workload, compute might just be 1/3 to 1/2 of your spend. The remainder going on storage, networking (egress and internal between regions & AZs), LBs, and higher abstraction services (from queues to search to serverless). Feels great to talk about 27-50% but turns out it's 9%-16% when all is said and done. You can get commitment savings on other services but you need higher spend. Feels odd that big cloud gives better discounts to enterprise. They really don't cater to startups as much as they posture.
stackedinserter 1y ago
You pay $1 million per month for AWS?

antonkochubey 1y ago

Savings plans and reserved instances will get you at least 50% off EC2, RDS, and some other things

mannyv 1y ago

You talk to your account rep to do a guaranteed spend in exchange for a discount. Some services get large discounts, some don’t. Depends on utilization. For 10k you should get a lot.

enz 1y ago

At previous $WORK we had similar bills. Our Account Manager got us some deals on S3 storage and egress fee (via CloudFront), in exchange for some usage commitment. It was AWS Europe though, it may be different in the US.