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		jcrites on Sept 21, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cisco Acquires Splunk Yes ... it's very possible for DataDog costs to exceed the cost of the infrastructure that it's monitoring (e.g. AWS). I've seen it happen. (If you aren't careful and aren't managing your costs, but I suppose that's true of almost anything =)

gibolt on Sept 21, 2023 [–]

Sounds like a double whammy. Misconfigure one AWS service, and you get hit with a giant bill from both.

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