[us0r]

> The table above does not reflect our renewed cloud hosting agreement with a third-party provider, entered into on May 31, 2025. Under the terms of the non-cancellable agreement, we committed to purchase a minimum of $545.0 million in cloud hosting services over the next five years. This renewed agreement replaces a previous agreement with the provider.

$300k/DAY AWS bill. I wonder what the "non-cancellable" savings is.

[taminka]

why is it so high? all of their high performance stuff is on device wasm, so all of that just to host their website and like collab features or some such?

[rudi-c]

There's plenty of server-side components to Figma that are substantially more complex and expensive than that of the typical website.

Multiplayer means that every file that are user loads is loaded onto a compute server and retained in-memory on that server, processing every mutation to the document. Figma documents can get quite large -- they can contain the design system of an entire organization, dozens of variations of a product feature, etc. This means the server cost scales per active session at a given time, a higher "number" than active requests.

In addition to multiplayer, Figma attempts to keep most other parts of the application real-time. If another user adds a file to a project, you will see it without refreshing the page. That's a simple example, but certain types of queries/mutation can get much more complex.

Figma is an enterprise app, and the data models needed to support complex use cases (permissions, etc) means that DB load is a real challenge.

While the DAU count of Figma might not be as high as other consumer apps, the amount of time those users spend in Figma is often substantially higher.

Those are some of the things that contribute to a high bill. While Figma is most known for the frontend editor, the infra work is plenty interesting too.

[v5v3]

Nvidia GPUs/Aws ai offerings?

[doctorpangloss]

Not sure why you are being downvoted for asking a question. One POV is that Figma’s technology can afford to be run expensively. Their on device ie in browser stuff is running on very expensive computers too. It isn’t necessarily optimal. We don’t know.

[StratusBen]

And yet they still have a ~90% gross margin -- honestly not too shabby!

[doctorpangloss]

Figma earns more profit for AWS than it could earn for itself firing everyone.