More expensive than directly sourcing from OpenAI

The AWS pricing page says 10% more than OpenAI, which is probably because they’re forcing all inference through the US and data residency is at a 10% premium from the model vendors for whatever reason (because you’ll pay for it).

If they put in a global endpoint like with Claude (or OpenAI directly) then it’ll probably match the direct pricing, if the pattern holds.

(https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/pricing/, scroll to OpenAI)

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cebert 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It’s even more expensive for GovCloud customers. We pay a 30% premium on top of that.

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sokoloff 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It also could be to provide room for enterprise discount pricing without it being money-losing for one of the companies.

	▲	yojo 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I have worked at places that have negotiated flat percentage discounts on all AWS spend. This explanation seems plausible to me.

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BoredPositron 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's for people that can easily pump their AWS bill but not a new vendor.