Thanks for sharing this!<p>That triopoly - or oligopoly, if you prefer - is really bad for startups.<p>It's not just that the big players can charge whatever they want. They also keep coming up with new ways to raise prices.<p>It's gotten to the point where startups are at risk of bankruptcy because of unexpected cloud costs [1]. Given their dominance, it's no surprise that Google recently hiked prices [2].<p>There are many ways to cut cloud costs, but founders I've spoken to don't have the time to optimize their spend. On a related note, my company, Usage.AI, has built a tool to automatically buy and sell Reserved Instances to cut EC2 costs.<p>If you're a startup on a tight budget, you can't afford to overspend on the cloud. And given the big players' continued price hikes, it's only going to get harder to stay within your budget.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2022/04/19/cloud-costs-may-bankrupt-you-heres-how-to-fight-back/" rel="nofollow">https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2022/04/19/cl...</a>
[2] <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/updates-to-google-clouds-infrastructure-pricing" rel="nofollow">https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/update...</a>