I was reading this article and he mentions that you can renegotiate your AWS contract by as much as 50%:<p>https://dalton.substack.com/p/letter-to-myself-in-late-2008<p>Has anyone here done that before? How?<p>What did you need to do/prove to show you needed it dropped?
I have with Azure. They can be very generous depending on your company state, investment status, current spend, and your ability to switch to a competitor.
Startups are a specific case where you can get access to rather generous credits (note, not the same as an open-ended discount agreement) for a couple of years.<p>For larger companies operating over the longer term, you would be looking for an EDP agreement, which gives you a discount in exchange for agreeing to a minimum spend threshold over a period of a few years. This would be significantly less than 50%.