I agree - you need a dev environment to do your job. That said, I worked at a place where the AWS dev accounts cost hundreds of thousands of dollars a month - I

I agree - you need a dev environment to do your job. That said, I worked at a place where the AWS dev accounts cost hundreds of thousands of dollars a month - I don't know how many employees were outsourced but no one wanted to pay for the extra uptime of the environments for them.