>Unfortunately, since all of your services run on servers (whether you like it or not), someone in that supply chain is charging you based on their peak load.
This seems fundamentally incorrect to me? If I need 100 units of peak compute during 8 hours of work hours, I get that from Big Cloud, and they have two other clients needing same in offset timezones then in theory the aggregate cost of that is 1/3rd of everyone buying their own peak needs.
Whether big cloud passes on that saving is another matter, but it's there.
i.e. big cloud throws enough small customers together so that they don't have "peak" per se just a pretty noisy average load that is in aggregate mostly stable
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