I don't consider $900/month in bandwidth significant. And I'm sure Amazon account managers don't either -- but it can't hurt to ask, especially if you've got a growth plan that makes sense.
That is to say, the reason you can negotiate a discount once you get well past that point (or if you intend to grow well past that point) is because staying on AWS makes increasingly less sense for you.
Not anymore. In the US, you can now write off $500K/year in equipment costs immediately.
> It also means shifting expenses from monthly as-you-go to mostly upfront.
Dedicated server provider or lease the equipment instead of buy.
Softlayer no longer includes 5TB on every virtual server and their bandwidth is equally outrageous so I'm still evaluating a plan for new servers.