Getting our applications out of the cloud provided the main celebration for our exit, but seeing the actual spend tumble is the prize. See, the only way to get pricing in the cloud down from obscene to merely offensive is through reserved instances. This is where you sign up for a year or more in advance on a certain level of spend. Th...
Years ago I was the senior techie in designing and implementing distributed high performance server systems and what you reminded me of just made my blood start to boil… :/