[schoolornot]

Every place I've worked the AWS bill has always gone into a sort of a cost center blackhole. Finance would do their best in the beginning of the year to negotiate discounts & teams would do their best to keep costs low w/ reserved instances, etc.

Even though $1k is indeed a rounding error where I work vs. what we pay each month, it's becoming annoying how granular the billing for new setups is becoming. When I'm asked to compare TCO of an on-prem solution vs. a hosted one that includes all-of-the-above, I feel like I'm playing actuary and not cloud engineer.

[qz2]

When asked to compare I always immediately get instructed by subordinates to apply the existing lies they were telling. That's how you manage cloud costs!