You probably heard of Figma's AWS bill already. If not, tldr is that they've listed for IPO, which means that they had to disclose their financial information. One of the findings there was that Figma spends roughly $300k a day on AWS, and many people freaked out.

In this article, Corey Quinn puts these spendings into perspective: this astonishing sum is just about 12% of their rolling revenue or $0.7 per active user, which is not that bad.

It's a short, funny read, since Corey has his own style of presenting his opinions:

 HackerNews commenters claimed they could cut Figma’s costs by “at least 30%, often more than half.” Sure, Steven; that seems credible. I’m certain your experience running a Minecraft server uniquely qualifies you to architect infrastructure for 95% of Fortune 500 companies.

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