Comment by lrae
21 hours ago
> Just as Anthropic isn’t paying AWS SES $10,000,000 to send 1 email update
How much do you think emails cost? That number is just so far off?
But besides that, running SES is also quite a bit cheaper than SOTA ai models with high demand (and comparatively) no competition. And quite a bit more pressure to make money (soon).
I think it was a figurative example. For what it's worth, $10,000,000 buys you 100 billion (1e11) outbound emails on SES at the sticker price ($0.10/1000 emails). One source puts the number of emails sent worldwide in 2024 at 132 trillion (1.32e14).
https://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/
https://www.statista.com/statistics/456500/daily-number-of-e...
But if their “figurative example” was the opposite of reality, then we should similarly assume their other claims were the opposite of true as well?