>If they're not worried about you jumping ship (you use a lot of their aws-native services), you can get a great deal.
Aka as long as you are not using the cloud as cloud the cloud can be cheap?
>rent the space and pay for upkeep for less than $4k a month?
I mean, you can just rent servers somewhere else.. or do a colocation rack. Also I would strongly suggest going with the first one
> If they're not worried about you jumping ship (you use a lot of their aws-native services), you can get a great deal.
Shouldn't it be the other way around? Why are they giving you are discount if you're not likely to jump?
I could buy a whole off lease fully deprcriated server and a year of colo with a gig link for under $4,000, yes. I would almost certainly see better performance than any cloud provider can give me too.
We have another service that has 20x the bandwidth, but it's a legacy GAE that has super cheap premium egress... But I'm told that AWS says that their pre-pay discount will be competitive in about a year, the rate that we're growing.
The negotiated egress prices are much lower, so long as you are buying future egress. If they're not worried about you jumping ship (you use a lot of their aws-native services), you can get a great deal.