This post is the first time I've heard of your company and your blog post interested me.
When proprietors go to the mat in the comment section, I immediately lose any interest in patronizing them.
[1] https://neon.com
It sure does scale to zero alright...
It's a rotten attitude, and judging a projects worth by an AWS bill is a very poor comparator. I could spin up a massive aws bill doing some pointless machine learning workloads, is that suddenly a valid project in your eyes?
Can you spin it on a AWS competitor for a fraction of a cost? Absolutely yes I would be interested in reading about it!
- EU: 1%
- US: 24%
- China: 35%
That is quite a favourable comparison for Europe, I'd say.
EDIT if anything, staring at these numbers, one might conclude the EU is not spending enough in general, in particular on innovation. Quite the stark contrast to being a money grab, IMO.