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> as de facto decreases (widely but privately negotiated, e.g. "sticker price"). Widely, AWS doesn't negotiate on pricing. Small business get the list price or
by rsstack 4y ago
> as de facto decreases (widely but privately negotiated, e.g. "sticker price").
Widely, AWS doesn't negotiate on pricing. Small business get the list price or they can switch to another cloud. Medium and large businesses (from 100 employees to Fortune 500) get blanket discounts (excl. some specific line items) in exchange for a spend commitment, e.g. if you commit to at least $10M AWS spend per year, you'll get a 10% discount for all your spend. It doesn't give different discounts to S3 compared to other AWS products.
Do unique top-top-tier customers of AWS get special S3 pricing? Nice for them, but it isn't _widely_.
- nmjohn 4y agoFWIW $10M is at least 1 order of magnitude, and in some cases 2 orders of magnitude higher than necessary in order to negotiate discounts, depending on services used.
- rsstack 4y agoAFAIK enterprise discounts start at or above $1M. I don't have recent data on minimums or common discount rates.
- realityking 4y agoI don‘t know about S3 specifically but with a large enough consumption you can negotiate a specific rate card for individual AWS services in addition your Enterprise discount.
- themitigating 4y agoI was at two companies that negotiated data transfer rates with a minimum commitment . I think one was $0.01/GB min of 5PB a month.
- rsstack 4y agoI think at one company I worked, our discount specifically excluded data transfer. It is X% off for all AWS services not including their data transfer costs (both inter-AZ and extra-VPC). It makes sense to me that AWS, with their networking-heavy pricing, negotiates on services and data transfer separately.
- rwiggins 4y agoI expect pricing is probably pretty bespoke, given there are humans involved. I worked for a company that had X% off all AWS costs, including all data transfer - except for CloudFront, which had a whole separate negotiated rate card (including data transfer, per-request rates, etc.).