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> Cutting costs by adopting a better architecture was a big thing at one of my previous jobs. People were praised and promoted for cutting thousands of dollars off monthly AWS bills.

I think this is a slippery slope. praising is fine, but aws bills is essentially a non-functional quality attribute of the software. the job is to never even let it become a problem in the first place

what about teams that have built their software in time and with quality, are they essentially losing one of the opportunities to get promoted because they built a better software in the first place?