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		spullara on Aug 15, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Reining in the thundering herd: Getting to 80% CPU... The difference people see, as far as I can tell, is that AWS is charging you cost+ and pure software companies need to charge for value or die.

dilyevsky on Aug 16, 2021 [–]

Maybe for barebones compute they’re cost+ but I don’t think that’s really true for other services. For example traffic should cost effectively zero to them but they charge a huge premium. Some other managed services also appear to use value based pricing

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