“That list does not include cost savings, a factor that has seen SaaS outfit 37Signals quit the cloud and software vendor Ahrefs estimate that operating its own hardware in a colo datacenter saves it $400 million.”
Jassy’s shareholder letter says AWS sales and support teams spend much of their time helping customers cut their AWS bills. Customers, he says, are “cost-optimizing,” not cost-cutting. AWS runs at $85 billion a year and still claims cost-efficiency as a reason to migrate. Corey Quinn found Graviton3 instances over 6 percent more expensive than Graviton2 like for like. When the vendor assigns staff to shrink your bill, the bill was the problem.