It's not just cloud costs that are out of control

> At the risk of invoking a tired cliche, this kind of outlay [$65M for Datadog] for a performance and monitoring service sounds like a 0% interest rate phenomenon.

Almost anything in those tech companies seems to be a 0% interest rate phenomenon: The silly company valuations, the silly salaries for ordinary people, the silly headcount for simple products, and consequently the silly pricing of their products. It's a hugely inflated bubble powered by endless cheap money, and a correction is long overdue.