Of course it varies by business model. It would be a huge help to hear from different people.
For resource intensive business (e.g. video processing, big data as a service)I would expect 20-40% of revenue, so 2.4 - 4.8 mln/year.
For typical application (e.g. CRM, specialized app, integration) 5-10% of revenue, so 600k-1.2 mln/year.
Mature, stable companies tend to have lower numbers. Hypergrowth startups may have waste in their growth phase.
Happy to help with your AWS optimizations.
- we are woefully wasteful with resources. If it was worth the engineering time we could probably cut it down to $120k a year
- it’s not worth the engineering time because the business would rather the devs and infra prioritize feature work over cost cutting every quarter. Their philosophy is that if we can’t afford our bill the company’s got bigger issues.