The problem with the cloud is that it makes things easy. Just throw it in, eh? Developers keep adding toys that cost money, and then at some point, someone at

The problem with the cloud is that it makes things easy. Just throw it in, eh? Developers keep adding toys that cost money, and then at some point, someone at the top notices the bill, and it's all hands on deck. The cost due diligence should happened before anything, not when your ass is on fire and you need to save money yesterday. "Do we need that beefy RDS instance?" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ "Why does our ElasticCache data keep growing at such a high rate and nothing is expiring?" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ "Could X be done much cheaper with Y?" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ "Why did we spin up DynamoDB for this if we already have Postgres?". ¯\_(ツ)_/¯