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or you could pay $1m to someone like Corey to revisit the architecture a little and shave $100-200m off that bill by not doing silly things? https://www.lastwee
by xchaotic 5y ago
or you could pay $1m to someone like Corey to revisit the architecture a little and shave $100-200m off that bill by not doing silly things? https://www.lastweekinaws.com/about/ https://www.lastweekinaws.com/about/
- Schiendelman 5y agoUsually a large company has people as smart as Corey to avoid mistakes. AWS also tends to assign solution architects to contracts this large to help customers avoid waste. Sure, it loses them some spend, but the customer obsession earns them more trust.
- chrisandchris 5y agoCorey recently blogged why Lyft is reasonable to pay a similar sum to AWS: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/4-reasons-lyft-is-smart-to-pay-aws-300m/ https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/4-reasons-lyft-is-smart-t... In short: it does not matter for a company that does not even have a profit and probably won‘t reach break-even soon. It‘s a waste of time to cut cloud-computing cost at that stage of the company.