Lyft is paying AWS $100m per year (or ~$0.14 per ride) or approx 1% of current bookings run rate. It's like a cloud compute "interchange fee". The funny part is Lyft is prob paying more in payment processing fees than AWS fees.
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Molson Hart Retweeted Hemant Mohapatra
Don't know if you inspired this tweet, but in any case, you might find it interesting:https://twitter.com/MohapatraHemant/status/1102401615263223809 …
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Hemant Mohapatra @MohapatraHemant
So @lyft is paying $8m/mo to @AWS -- almost $100m/yr! Each ride costs $.14 in AWS rent. I keep hearing they could build their own DC & save. My early days at @Google cloud, heard the same from customers: "at scale, owning is cheaper". It wasn't - they all came around. Here's why:
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