When ever there is non-transparent pricing, it's scary to try and use an infrastructure related service.
The sales teams can't go around saying that you are not a profitable customer, and they can't argue with the marketing team to be more honest about pricing on the pricing page.
So, end result, let's bump of these small free loaders. Large enterprise deals is what gets us the bonus anyways.
I like fly.io pricing in that sense. And I am sure there might be others offering a more transparent pricing, otherwise like me still stuck on AWS.
I get more worried when the giveaways / marketing is VC funded - they often end at some point or pressure inside to dial back etc.
“We have free egress to Oceania!” - no, you don’t. You are subsidizing that.
Given what aws charges and how they charge for almost everything- no reason to be any pressure to move me to another plan. AWS free tiers are relatively minuscule