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Twitter is refusing to pay its Google cloud bills (tech.seposts.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would one say Elon Musk is the cause of this?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My bet is liquidity is nonexistent. They are paying AWS with Amazon Advertising revenue: Amazon withholds ad payments for paying their AWS bills.

Would've expected the Xth richest person on earth to afford a bit of cloud services, especially after he bragged that he's simplifying the infrastructure, reduces infra costs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah but the moron did that by leaning hard into horizontally scaling the core monolith, which is possibly the most expensive way to run an ecosystem