Back in the early 2000s getting compute as an internal Amazon developer or dev manager was a rather ridiculous process. Officially you were supposed to get it f

Back in the early 2000s getting compute as an internal Amazon developer or dev manager was a rather ridiculous process. Officially you were supposed to get it from the infrastructure team, but there was no real spare capacity to give out. So savvy dev managers would over-request and then hoard. You'd even see managers engaging in horse-trading with other managers to get capacity! Even infra devs had to play the game, although they had it a little bit easier for obvious reasons.