The linked blog post mentions October 2021, while in December 2021 AWS lowered pricing for CloudFront where the first terabyte out to internet is now completely free:
For larger use cases most cloud providers have custom or private pricing options available. For example in CloudFront pricing page AWS publicly states that "Custom discounted pricing is available for customers willing to commit to a minimum of 10 TB of data transfer per month for 12 months or longer."
I have noted that most of the blog posts like the one linked above talk about migrating workloads around for savings of tens or hundreds of dollars while focusing on low level IaaS (VMs), and completely ignore the benefits of leveraging cloud services, APIs and related software ecosystems instead of DIY.
While I mostly agree with you, you should take into account that not all start ups are venture funded. Sometimes you want to test an idea and you are funding it yourself (spare time and money). Testing an idea is not a one month gig. You often have to be patient and try different things until it works or you are confident you know why it didn't.
The linked blog post mentions October 2021, while in December 2021 AWS lowered pricing for CloudFront where the first terabyte out to internet is now completely free:
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-price...
For larger use cases most cloud providers have custom or private pricing options available. For example in CloudFront pricing page AWS publicly states that "Custom discounted pricing is available for customers willing to commit to a minimum of 10 TB of data transfer per month for 12 months or longer."
I have noted that most of the blog posts like the one linked above talk about migrating workloads around for savings of tens or hundreds of dollars while focusing on low level IaaS (VMs), and completely ignore the benefits of leveraging cloud services, APIs and related software ecosystems instead of DIY.