That’s not the experience I have with AWS. They are really trying to help you get the most out of their platform - including costs.

I’m not saying their pricing is not confusing, but the account managers and sales engineers I’ve worked with always did a good job navigating us through it - and being honest when something can be achieved a lot cheaper.

Better have a customer optimize their usage, pay less, be happy, and stick with AWS than switching to a different platform.

There are so many cost optimization (recommendation or actual) companies and as far as i know none were bought by aws. Azure bought 1 company and used that to allow their cost management to connect and show AWS cost information. other then that, nothing.

Kinda like how Amazon acquired CloudEndure, improved the service, and lowered cost by 80%? They really broke that. /s

Full disclosure: I work at AWS. Not on CloudEndure or anything relating to pricing. But come on.

AWS != Oracle

That’s not really the AWS MO. There is enough genuine demand for computing out there. AWS isn’t really trying to make you accidentally waste money on AWS as much as shift real workloads there.