There were mitigations for this but it was usually on “IT”s budget and IT was considered a cost center. Really the best innovation in the last 10 years has bee

There were mitigations for this but it was usually on “IT”s budget and IT was considered a cost center. Really the best innovation in the last 10 years has been the penchant for putting things on development budgets instead which loosened the purse strings considerably. I wish I had sufficient data to back this up but for context; I was part of a small infrastructure team running a little over 1% of all web traffic at one point in a pair of colos (with DDoS protection) for less than £5MM on infra costs. Now I can easily be in the 6 digits with just a CRUD app