This is a trend for AWS. The building blocks (S3, EBS, EC2, Lambda, Dynamo) are priced at cost + margin, and prices tend to improve.
The more niche/higher level services like kendra are priced based on the value to a medium to large company.
They don’t expect individual developers to use this, or build anything on top of it. They expect a partner or employee of the company to do a pilot on the developer pricing, then convert to the enterprise pricing.
It’s a somewhat annoying trend but imo Google Cloud is a much worse offender here, everything new from them seems to be on prem “call sales for pricing” aimed at the enterprise.
The more niche/higher level services like kendra are priced based on the value to a medium to large company.
They don’t expect individual developers to use this, or build anything on top of it. They expect a partner or employee of the company to do a pilot on the developer pricing, then convert to the enterprise pricing.
It’s a somewhat annoying trend but imo Google Cloud is a much worse offender here, everything new from them seems to be on prem “call sales for pricing” aimed at the enterprise.