We are unfortunately moving away from self-hosted bare metal. I disagree with the transition to AWS. But it's been made several global layers above me.
It's funny our previous AWS spend was $800 per month and has been for almost 6 years.
We've just migrated some of our things to AWS and the spend is around $4,500 per month.
I've been told the company doesn't care until our monthly is in excessive of five figures.
None of this makes sense to me.
The only thing that makes sense is our parent company is _huge_ and we have some really awesome TAMs and our entire AWS spend is probably in the region of a few million a month, so it really is pennies behind the sofa when global org is concerned.
I read some many stories like this and every time I think of the "your margins are my opportunity" quote, and think there must be so many inefficient enterprises that are ripe for disruption by a small efficient team.
Now you mention it, the other thing we are being forced to do is categorise our work (e.g. commits/PRs) as Cap/Op. And then once a year a bunch of us are randomly selected by one of the big four auditing companies to talk about why that piece of work was Cap/Op.
We are unfortunately moving away from self-hosted bare metal. I disagree with the transition to AWS. But it's been made several global layers above me.
It's funny our previous AWS spend was $800 per month and has been for almost 6 years.
We've just migrated some of our things to AWS and the spend is around $4,500 per month.
I've been told the company doesn't care until our monthly is in excessive of five figures.
None of this makes sense to me.
The only thing that makes sense is our parent company is _huge_ and we have some really awesome TAMs and our entire AWS spend is probably in the region of a few million a month, so it really is pennies behind the sofa when global org is concerned.