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Shit... I reduced our spend on one AWS account from $270K a month to $75K a month.
by zikduruqe 3y ago
Shit... I reduced our spend on one AWS account from $270K a month to $75K a month.
- ponector 3y agoGreat! Shareholders will be happy. Did you receive any bonus?
- marvin 3y agoIt's a good shoo-in for becoming a freelance consultant charging a percentage of annual savings rather than hourly time billed.
- Chico75 3y agoThe problem is always around abuse. If it becomes known that you can get a big bonus by wasting a lot of money on useless infra first and then reducing it, other people will start playing the game. How do you reward cloud cost awareness without creating perverse incentives?
- nvm0n2 3y agoIt's always the same answer: managers who pay attention to the details. People familiar with your work should be able to tell if you're gaming the system or not.
- zen928 3y agoWill they also be paying what they owe on the added costs that could have been noticed earlier with due diligence? I'm imagining that what they'll receive instead is the compensation expected and agreed upon by both parties negotiated during either initial hiring or the multiple points in the year that allow for easy communication about changing payroll expectations, instead of hawking for dimes at first sight.
- zikduruqe 3y agoHahaha, for doing my job? I wish.