Working at a large company migrating from our own datacenters to AWS where our monthly bill is approaching 8 figures.
The higher ups were lured in with promises of easy elasticity that'd allow them to save money compared to our relatively overprovisioned DCs but the reality is that only some projects that benefit from this and certain teams which need large numbers of heavy duty servers for baseline usage are much more expensive.
We have an internal team of 5-6 who are responsible just for building infrastructure on AWS for other teams and prodding teams to get into AWS.
The higher ups were lured in with promises of easy elasticity that'd allow them to save money compared to our relatively overprovisioned DCs but the reality is that only some projects that benefit from this and certain teams which need large numbers of heavy duty servers for baseline usage are much more expensive.
We have an internal team of 5-6 who are responsible just for building infrastructure on AWS for other teams and prodding teams to get into AWS.