This is a pretty common thing within Amazon. Internally it's called being "Frupid" (frugal + stupid). It's one of the reasons I left. Also you have to jump thr

This is a pretty common thing within Amazon. Internally it's called being "Frupid" (frugal + stupid). It's one of the reasons I left. Also you have to jump through pretty extreme hoops if your hardware estimates (usually made at least 3 months out) were under-shot and now your service is redlining. This leads to teams way over-estimating their hardware needs and thus millions being spent on idle reserved EC2 capacity. So now they police (with savagery) idle capacity, so services or workloads that are "bursty" are basically an internal-bureaucracy nightmare. It's much nicer to use AWS outside of Amazon :)