[scarface74]

Disclaimer: I work at AWS in Professional Services.

I can honestly say that I have never been pressured to create a more expensive solution for a customer. Everyone from sales, to account managers, to TAMs are are always trying to figure out how to help customer spend less money on their existing workloads.

Before anyone says I’m drinking the kool aid, I’m 49 years old and this is my 8th job since 1996. I’m the most cynical person you can imagine.

Now there is a difference between wanting customers to spend less on existing workloads and helping them optimize and trying to convince customers to spend more money by bringing in new work.

[Terretta]

I've been an AWS customer since the thing before S3 I think was called SQS.

And whether I've been small, or massive, ProServ and TAMs always always did what you're saying.

When we were big enough, you'd even (no joke) get in an actual automobile and drive to us, to yell at us about wasting money.

It was great you did that.