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Here’s what I don’t get. Being frugal with AWS costs seems to be another contradiction, like having a Michelin starred chef cook for your employees every day ye

Here’s what I don’t get. Being frugal with AWS costs seems to be another contradiction, like having a Michelin starred chef cook for your employees every day yet penny pinching the cost of the ingredients... Sure it’s great that you’re saving money somewhere, but you’re still handing the limited runway money hand over fist for unnecessary luxury, no matter how much you save on the little details. If you were actually frugal, you could have much better service without having to worry about each line item as much.

afarrell 6y ago
Penny-pinching the cost of the ingredients makes sense if and only if you don't value the impact or you want to pay a team which has "maintaining food supplier relationships" as 1 out of 3 ongoing focus areas. If there is a team with that ongoing mission, it can build the skills needed to reduce the cost of inputs without reducing the quality of impact. Penny-pinching AWS cost makes sense if and only if you want to pay a team which has "responsively manage compute resources" as 1 of 3 ongoing focus areas.
raverbashing 6y ago
Yeah, agreed. Especially when they try to "save costs" by spreading itself over several AWS services ensured they're locked in the most to the ecosystem. Though yes EC2 is not the cheapest but if you're using "only that" (or maybe S3/R53, etc) and being cheap I can accept you're being frugal.
throwawayboise 6y ago
Having the chef prepare a great meal allowed them to have people working 12 hour days instead of 8, and saved them the cost of hiring more staff. It probably was worth it. Frugality =/= cheap. Frugality is about spending wisely; getting good value.