> AWS blamed the termination on a “third-party payer” issue. An AWS consultant who’d been covering my bills disappeared, citing losses from the FTX collapse. The arrangement had worked fine for almost a year—about $200/month for my testing infrastructure.
He essentially got screwed over by the consultant. Everything else is a side-effect but not material to the cause.
The article makes a variety of claims, some of which can be dismissed because they factually do not exist with AWS, and some of which cannot be verified at all. But precedent shows that when your middleman in a savings scheme drops out, you are screwed, and that is what happened here.
That doesn't make this fun, and it would be better if everyone had a personal account manager, but that's not the reality of today.