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Highly doubt that. MongoDB has 5000 well paid employees and is not a big loss making enterprise. If most of the cost was pass through to AWS, they’d not be able to do that. Their quarterly revenue is $500M+ but also spend $200M in sales and marketing and $180M in R&D. (All based on their filings)


You can look at this particular bill and observe that more than 50% of the cost was going to AWS.


If they’re a reseller of AWS, which they will be, they decide the rates that get charged.


Yes, and my point is that this customer switching to running their own MongoDB instances on EC2 like Atlas does would reduce the bill by less than 50% because the rates that they are charging mean that their cut is less than what AWS is getting from this customer.




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