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Even if AWS treats Amazon like any customer the article is off by a factor of 30-60%.

RIs for their RDS instances. Saving Plan for their EC2s.

1 or 3 year commit, no upfront vs all upfront, etc.

A customer at the size of Amazon using AWS would have private pricing arrangement and an EDP.

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You wouldn’t commit for 3 years for increased resources of a single day.

You could and then sell the extra on the spot market for the other ~1000 days.

True, but all of the usage is not net new and they'll have a base commit.

Honestly, their EDP is probably effectively cost, set in stone to make sure that if the government breaks them up or something like that both systems are good.

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