everything i know about aws i learned because i said "why the fuck is my bill so high?"
@ghorwood wait so you want us to deploy cross-AZ but you charge us exorbitant rates for cross-AZ bandwidth?
@cube_drone remember with fondness the day i walked into a rescue job and rebuilt their staging environment to stop using a multi-az rds and just threw the db on a t2.micro and the original devs were "you can *do* that?"
@ghorwood CIO: we are going to migrate everything Azure cloud. It's going to save us so much money.
... fast forward 3 years...
CIO: the monthly Amazon bill is insane!