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Re:Twitter refused to pay AWS bill, so Amazon refused to pay... by tsol on Sunday March 05, 2023 @09:33PM (#35036852)
>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

Re:Twitter refused to pay AWS bill, so Amazon refused to pay... by comte7092 on Sunday March 05, 2023 @09:37PM (#35036887)
It’s like a smaller scale replay of Elon trying to back of his agreement to purchase Twitter last year.
Re:Twitter refused to pay AWS bill, so Amazon refused to pay... by fwlr on Sunday March 05, 2023 @10:19PM (#35037152)
A 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.