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having a hard time to see how you scale down 120 mil a year. How much you spend yearly now

It’s probably not for the entire year, a lot of it is just various clusters being scaled back. That said some of the stuff has been moved to colo hardware, and some of it is probably just gone forever.

The guy is lying, obviously.

Maybe, maybe not. But I think I agree with you- 10m/m is a comically large number(I wonder how many companies spend even 1/100th of that a month on cloud compute?) and I have no reason to believe this person so why would I?

Correct there is no reason to believe me. However for context and perspective our quarterly revenue is usually around $3 billion. $10 million is not comically large. I’m not talking about a startup. hth

I'm shocked that some middle manager with half a technical head on their shoulders didn't use this as a VP play before this; surely, "I saved the company 120m a year with no downstream consequences to yada yada" would have been worth it for someone somewhere to climb the ladder.

Why would you, if in good times you can enlarge your own budget/headcount/importance/... just by increasing budget no questions asked, that's a safer way ahead. You risk devaluing your own position in the company for an uncertain gain...

I was obviously being slightly sarcastic. I wouldn't want to personally work that way. I do believe that might be quite an effective strategy if one's goal were climbint the corporate ladder.

I think it would be easy to hit especially if you were spending on cloud SAAS offerings + actually have a lot of users. I know I've managed to spend a few $10K/month on a project before - and it was actually celebrated because it was less than half the cost of what it was replacing.

Yeah but that’s almost my point; 20k/m is an order of magnitude less than 10 million/month.

Technically, 2.5 orders of magnitude.

Thank you. I need to get better at using orders of magnitude.

Apple spends more than $30M/mo. on AWS. [1]

Comcast, I was told, spends over $1B/year on AWS but I cannot find any public references to back it up.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/22/apple-spends-more-than-30-mi...

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