> ...an updated free tier that treats “personal learning” AWS accounts differently from “new corporate” accounts, and sets hard billing limits that you can’t exceed.
Honestly, this is needed for corporate accounts as well. Not all companies are FAANG scale behemoths who can shrug off an unexpected charge.
For a scrappy startup in India, an unexpected $5000 bill would be an existential threat.
Not sure why, but they courted our company right from the beginning: got in touch with us within a month of us forming up, gave us a generous free startup credit, even invited us over to their Bangalore office and helped us with how we can optimize our infra.
Thankfully, the company reached profitability so we pay them rather hefty bills now. But I guess I agree with you in that that's not a typical startup's trajectory, and their ROI from the aforementioned outreach is likely relatively low on average so am wondering now why they went out of the way to help us.
Honestly, this is needed for corporate accounts as well. Not all companies are FAANG scale behemoths who can shrug off an unexpected charge.
For a scrappy startup in India, an unexpected $5000 bill would be an existential threat.