Notes on building on the major clouds — AWS first, with Bedrock, Kinesis, and the rest of the modern AI/data toolkit; Azure and GCP as the surface area grows.
An AI startup's AWS bill tells a story. Walk through what services you actually need at each user tier — from the alpha with 10 design partners to a million-user product — and, more importantly, what pressure forces each jump.
Every AWS service, acronym, and pricing term from the 0-to-1-million-users post, defined — plus the popular and open-source alternatives to each, and a 1-to-5 gut check on whether the AWS-native pick is actually the right one.