[sputknick]

One thing I have been wrong about for about 2 years is predicting companies would pull back from using the cloud. What I see in corporate AWS accounts is a lot of waste. I thought once companies started tightening spending they would look at their cloud spending and shut a bunch of it down. When an EC2 instance only costs $30 a month to leave running, it's easy to forget about it. You get enough of those across a corporate enterprise and you are talking about serious money.

[dalyons]

Why would they pull back from the cloud, instead of just implementing some basic infra ownership and cost auditing processes?

[sputknick]

Good point, I explained that poorly (sorry, was half paying attention to a conference call). I meant "pull back" as in reduce their number of instances, which would reduce their monthly spend.