Amazon re-awarded $10B NSA cloud contract

Interesting that decisions like these don't seem to get a ton of attention from taxpayers. Businesses have a natural incentive to find cost-cutting methods and pass those savings on to their customers - not exactly the same here.

My company, Usage.AI, has built a tool to automatically buy and sell Reserved Instances to cut EC2 costs by up to 57%.

I'm sure the NSA got some sweet discounts on a contract this big, but I always wonder how much these agencies are spending on the cloud overall. Maybe they're overpaying in the billions of dollars?