[jeeyoungk]

Who's the target audience for this pricing that can afford this? The RUM pricing is indeed quite ridiculous.

It feels quite ridiculous, especially if you are managing "soft" resources like IAM roles via Terraform / Pulumi. At least with real resources (say, RDS instances), one can argue that Terraform / Pulumi pricing is a small percentage of the cloud bill. But IAM roles are not charged for in cloud, and there are so many of them (especially if you use IaaC to create very elaborate scheme).

[brudgers]

Who's the target audience for this pricing that can afford this?

The kind of customers it is good to have.

Because filtering out price sensitive customers is a sound business strategy.

As a rule of thumb, solve any problem your customer might have. Except not having money.

[tiniestcabbage]

There is an argument to be made that price-sensitive customers are a neglected market. Granted, marketing to them is very different - they're prone to being scooped if someone comes by willing to sell your same product to them at a loss (hi, Amazon and Walmart) - but there are a lot more of them and you're not fighting every startup on the planet for the same handful of clients.

Business have made a killing in China and India for a reason, after all.

[bastawhiz]

Good for who? Good for people getting bonuses? Good for executives?

It doesn't seem to be good for the customers or the people using the software or the people contributing to the open source code. It also doesn't seem to have been good for the investors, looking at the other comments.

[danw1979]

We are not talking about price sensitive customers though. Hashicorp shut out all customers who wanted a fixed price agreement with RUM.

[progbits]

It also creates horrible incentives. Oh I won't run this in isolated project or under a separate service account since that costs more, let's just pile everything together.

[ryanisnan]

To be fair to RUM pricing, there are also horrible incentives for workflow invocation based pricing models, or workspace count models.

[Schnitz]

Pulumi’s RUM pricing is why I was very hesitant to even evaluate it as an alternative to just using terraform.

[Aeolun]

I’m finding that the basic backend functionality of Pulumi and Terraform managed cloud is fairly easy to build (especially Terraform, I can’t quite believe how absurdly simple their cloud is…)

[thedougd]

That must explain why they broke up the S3 resources into a bunch of tiny resources.