[microtoodle]

I once saved a company $20k in infra costs and saw nothing of it.

In fact the team was pretty upset that they'd budgeted that money for infra already and it'd have been better spent instead of waiting till next year to re-budget it.

[busterarm]

I once talked AWS into a 5-digit refund for something that was our team's mistake.

It wasn't necessary though because we had a committed spend target to reach and we just had to figure out how to legitimately spend the money somewhere else. :(