> Where I work, we're basically donating money to the Bezos charity known as AWS at this point.
And ended with:
> And I know we're not alone and that there are other places (even in my immediate geographical area) that have waste well in excess of what we're pissing away.
That was my point. I perfectly (okay, maybe not perfectly, but well enough to understand that it's not worth my time to pursue) understand why and how these things happen, it isn't my first rodeo. And, honestly, I think I'd probably applaud the guy for figuring out how to get _damn near every one in SV_ to open up their fat fucking VC wallets to the man if it weren't for his business practices, like what we see in TFA.
You do sound resentful, though. Is it because you think an aws customer has a moral obligation to divert money they would save in aws costs into salaries for their own employees as opposed to finding aws employees so that bezos doesn't get his cut?
Working for tech in the valley is going to be extremely biased on focused differentiation, so cost containment has a lower priority.
On the other hand, the people I know in logistics and manufacturing are extremely concerned about cost containment. For them, charging more for the product/service is orders of magnitude more difficult than cutting costs—indeed, improving efficiency is often the primary method of growing the company (through lower prices or increased output). Such companies, even ones making hundreds of millions in revenue, would be very interested in proposals that save $100k/year.