I feel like AWS and the massive amounts of credit they give out just for asking has only made this worse. Don't get me wrong - I have been a beneficiary of the

I feel like AWS and the massive amounts of credit they give out just for asking has only made this worse. Don't get me wrong - I have been a beneficiary of their startup programs, and it's amazing for companies not to worry about compute for a year or two (you're never really using 100K anyway). That said, I have seen multiple companies get into the hole of not worrying about optimization (at all - who needs to when you have a quarter of a million in credits), and locking themselves into a massively complex microarchitecture by the time that first real bill rolls around. AWS knows what they're doing, do your best to work them rather than the other way around.