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Not paying attention to details in general, I can spend what I want on aws, I have told them I can save them thousands and no one cares until we have a bad mont
by cdevs 9y ago
Not paying attention to details in general, I can spend what I want on aws, I have told them I can save them thousands and no one cares until we have a bad month. On top of that 2 times a year we lose a service because a bill wasn't paid , when does it kick in that there is a problem?
- jerf 9y agoMake them an offer: You'll spend your time out of normal office hours to cut down the AWS expense. Add half to your salary, they can keep the other half. And suddenly, they'll care a lot. We're having some struggles with this at my workplace too. Engineers and even some management I'm finding rather cavalier about cloud spends. I wish they'd be as cavalier about my salary... "yeah, sure, you want another $200K/year, no sweat, whatevs dude." You don't mind if I click a button and accidentally spend $2K/month on a system that I'm using 1% of, but when it's in my favor suddenly we can't do that. (I'm not responsible for much in the cloud yet, but I do try to be responsible, even if for now it doesn't seem to benefit anybody. I'm sure at some point someone is going to raise hell about this and I'm not planning on being in the line of fire.)