Ahh yes, reading this as an SRE. This is the average Ops team experience, having to find ways to prove that we're not a cost center (I cut out AWS bill down 40%

Ahh yes, reading this as an SRE. This is the average Ops team experience, having to find ways to prove that we're not a cost center (I cut out AWS bill down 40% last year migrating to ARM64) because your work isn't blasted on the front page of a product changelog. And things... "just work," Until they don't. And they did because of the front loaded work we did correctly to keep things working.