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That’s a thing, to be sure. The calculus gets a little complicated when that developer’s pay is far more than the EC2 bill. There’s a spectrum with a small shop wasting $1000 a year hosting inefficient code, and Google-scale where SRE teams would love to put “saved .3% on our cloud bill!” on their annual review.

That's my experience as well in 2 different companies where we went from 2 E15K to 2 E25K because it was "cheaper" than rewriting who knows how much code, for how long and at what cost

At the other one, we jumped from 2 25k to 2 M9000-64 for the same reasons...

> ... to deal with their crappy code

written in an interpreted language.