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Re:3x performance for 1/4 of the price by migrating from AWS... by whstl on Friday October 17, 2025 @10:30AM (#45617224)
I don't think I have joined a startup that pays less than 20k/month to AWS or any cloud in almost a decade.

Biggest recent ones were ~200k and ~100k that we managed to lower to ~80k with a couple months of work (but it went back up again after I left).

I fondly remember lowering our Heroku bill from 5k to 2k back in 2016 after a day of work. Management was ecstatic.

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Re:3x performance for 1/4 of the price by migrating from AWS... by grebc on Monday October 20, 2025 @05:13AM (#45641688)
The only real startup I’ve had the privy of looking into financials had 5 figure AWS bills and literally 5 customers. Single digit customers.

And the product was sending SMS’s.

Startups are clown shows for burning OPM.

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