I've done the AWS thing. We spent over $1 million on AWS and I couldn't be bothered to care. We were in eternal crunch mode, 10-14 hour days for 6 months. If I

I've done the AWS thing. We spent over $1 million on AWS and I couldn't be bothered to care. We were in eternal crunch mode, 10-14 hour days for 6 months. If I spoke up about AWS waste I'd get ripped apart by upper management. Eventually it became apparent what was going on. I was pushed out and went to a competitor who paid me more and had better hours. I gave that competitor a lot of information about the previous company and transfered a lot of my knowledge. I delivered quite a bit of value rather quickly because of that and was recognized and rewarded for it. We work in an enormous industry. It doesn't seem like there are any consequences.