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Even without the free trial, how on earth can you burn $100 in cloud resources in a month if you plan to resell it for $10?
I think the basic idea is 'you need money to make money.' The hope is that with scale and engineering they can burn less. It is dubious that anyone can reduce from 100 to 10 -- 90% reduction would be an incredible feat, and this is why: AWS has something like profit 25% margin. Therefore assuming that AWS is within 15% of doing a half-decent job at controlling costs, that's still max 40% profit margin if you were run…
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