> I think the idea is that you can launder your team or product AI spend through your AWS account.

This is exactly it. For any reasonably sized org, setting up new contracts with new vendors involves a lot of procurement, lawyers, negotiations, etc.

If a team can just click a button in AWS, there’s no issue.

This is a product / solution that solves an organizational problem, not a technical one.

I wouldn’t even call it a hack as much as extremely common a strategy.

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pbgcp2026 3 hours ago | parent [-]

No, "This is exactly not it." They are buying your data on a cheap.

	▲	bdavbdav 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		As someone who is dealing with the procurement of both in a medium sized it, finops and infosec are exactly it.
	▲	kube-system 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Do you have experience selling to fortune 100 sized organizations? “I don’t have the budget for this but we have AWS credits” is something teams beg for all the time. When people beg to give you money, you accept it. Why? It’s not some conspiracy theory. You accept the money because it’s money.