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[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

AWS aggressively pursues high priced and years-long spending commitments with large customers, and they incentivize it with huge discounts for doing so.

And when AWS does this they intentionally incentivize these large customers to migrate existing workloads away from other cloud service providers as well, going so far as to offer assistance in doing so.

[–] jali67@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

And when they hit their end inevitable enshittification, what then?

[–] modus@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

At that point you're completely invested in their ecosystem and it'll cost you triple to get out.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 weeks ago

That's next quarter, after I've got my bonus for all these savings.

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago

IbM has entered the chat

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

Way above my pay grade! I would never suggest or support making such agreements, but I also don't want to be in a position where I'd even be asked, so I'd just sit back with a bowl of popcorn