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Twitter is refusing to pay its Google cloud bills
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this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
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Would one say Elon Musk is the cause of this?
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.
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