A previous client was paying roughly 50% of their AWS budget (more than a million per year) just to keep up development and staging. They were roughly 3x machi

A previous client was paying roughly 50% of their AWS budget (more than a million per year) just to keep up development and staging. They were roughly 3x machines for live, 2x for staging and 1x for development. Trying to get rid of it didn't work politically, because we had a cyclical contract with AWS where we were committing to spend X amount in exchange for discounts. Also, a healthy amount of ego and managers of managers BS. In terms of what that company was doing, I'm pretty sure I could have exceeded their environment for 2k per month on hetzner (using auction).