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by renegade-otter 1009 days ago
Companies are going through the "reduce our cloud bill NOW" exercise. They have to cut the unnecessary, wasteful infrastructure and raise prices.

So, after all these years of hearing "who cares about performance and cost - just buy more engineers, CPU, and memory", gravity is once again being the bitch that it is.
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marktangotango 1009 days ago
The aws/gcp/azure tax is starting to bite hard. At least we have choices. IBM rode a similar gravy train for many many years.
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braza 1008 days ago
I can relate with that. I was working in a company that after some layoffs and other cost reduction measures the COO (ex-Amazon) came and gave the instruction to reduce the maximum amount of costs in infrastructure (in our case GCP) and after 3 months we saved more than USD 15 million. Most of the things were GCS and Big Query (some situations where people were doing USD 5K querys).
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