[user5994461]

>>> Our number is closer to 1,700 now, but yes this means 1,700 distinct applications. Each application has many instances, some have thousands of instances.

Time to forbid adding more stuff and start cleaning.

    (12) [...] perfection has been reached not when there
        is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing
        left to take away.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1925

[brown9-2]

This type of comment presumes that there is a right number of services for a company to run.

What number is that?