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> There's nothing hidden about the fact that they will push us to use AWS services.

Our account team don't even do that. We use a lot of AWS anyway and they know it, so they're happy to help with competitor offerings and integrating with our existing stack. Their main push on us has been to not waste money.

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When I was at AWS, I watched SAs get promoted for saving customers money all the time.

AWS wants happy customers to stick around for a long time, not one month of goosed income

Yep. Pay us less every month and stick around for a long time. Getting low prices makes it really difficult to move away.

If you still decided to move away, and want to take data with you, yeah... there is a cost. Heck there is a cost to delete the data you have with them (like S3 content).

Its a good way to do business.

I can't say the same of the reserved instance team which is genuinely running a protection racket business.

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