Figma’s $300k Daily AWS Bill Isn’t the Scandal You Think It Is
Well, the internet did what the internet does best this week: it collectively lost its mind over a number in an S-1 filing. Figma disclosed they signed a ~$550 million contract with AWS, someone used arithmetic (the secret weapon of Cloud Finance) to determine that this was roughly $300,000 per day on AWS, and suddenly everyone with a social media account became a cloud economics expert.
Aurora DSQL: A Technical Marvel with a Pricing Randomizer
In short: Amazon’s Aurora DSQL is a technical marvel, but its pricing is absolutely baffling. And I mean just that. They’re not gouging customers. It’s not unfair. How they arrived at their pricing makes sense given the product’s development constraints (presumably including things such as “thou shalt not lose us our corporate ass on this service, as we cannot make it up in volume”). It’s just monumentally confusing.
The Innovation–Optimization Continuum
There’s a continuum, with “Innovation” on one end and “Optimization” on the other. Where are you?
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