For those completely unaware (like I was), lichess [1] seems to be a chess server.
Not sure whether they need AWS scale and couldn't cut costs down from 420k a year to something cheaper. Naively, this seems like something MS could sponsor by providing long-term discount.
That said, I have no idea how much cheaper this would be on other cloud providers, or whether they even have the need to cut down costs. For all I know, they might be making 10x of that in donations.
Not sure whether they need AWS scale and couldn't cut costs down from 420k a year to something cheaper. Naively, this seems like something MS could sponsor by providing long-term discount.
That said, I have no idea how much cheaper this would be on other cloud providers, or whether they even have the need to cut down costs. For all I know, they might be making 10x of that in donations.
[1] http://lichess.org