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Re:Netlify just sent me a $104K bill for a simple static site by d1sxeyes on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @05:00AM (#39522229)
Nowadays for customers spending millions of dollars you'd expect (at least, Amazon would expect) that the customer has a FinOps department who are already working on getting the most 'bang for their buck' out of what they're paying for and minimising their spend, and they would jump to another platform in a heartbeat if they thought they could save money. It's not unreasonable to think that you don't need to do these customers any favours to keep their business, because those customers are big enough to look after themselves.

For smaller customers, the friendliness of customer support and the flexibility to help them if they make mistakes is much more likely to be a retention consideration. And who knows when a company spending 3 digits a month becomes a customer spending 6 digits a month? You want to be the provider of choice in case the company grows.

Re:Netlify just sent me a $104K bill for a simple static site by Repulsion9513 on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @10:07AM (#39524959)
AWS will save us so much money! We don't have to pay for people to look after hardware! ... just pay for people to set up AWS, and maintain AWS, and make sure we're not paying thousands extra for AWS...
Re:Netlify just sent me a $104K bill for a simple static site by rafram on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @10:28AM (#39525196)
Yeah, exactly. I’m talking “I got billed $15 for an instance I haven’t used for the last few months. Can you refund me?”, not “You guys mind writing off a million or two?”