We had a commit that was like three orders of magnitude more and our price was 1-2c for cdn and 2c for tier1 cloud (but only “partner” networks, the rest was list). That was after us threatening to leave (and having capability to do so). So either you are mistaken or your am really really likes you.

No, it's your people suck at negotiating.

Again, we got quotes from Fastly, Akamai, and AWS. Our commit is/was $1500/month (we're on fastly now). Fastly gave us like 6 month free to switch, both bandwidth and requests.

So you mean to tell me you negotiated roughly -99% their list with a 1.5k commit?

Our CEO did, yes. Again, just ask for a quote, and get quotes from other providers. It's literally just an email (or phone call).

You mean, cloud bandwidth is cheap if you don't use much bandwidth. That's still an order of magnitude or two worse than the backbone cost.

Is that something generally avaliable to customers? I've done some searches and can't find anything other than savings plans for EC2 etc.

On AWS you have to call and ask them. We got quotes from AWS, Fastly, and Akamai. All of them are substantially cheaper than the public rates.