AWS staff spending ‘much of their time ’optimizing customers' clouds'
The original promise of the cloud was that it was cheaper than on prem. For many companies this has turned out not to be the case. Having worked on a cost optimization product for the past year (https://vantage.sh) my belief is that the cloud _is_ cheaper than on prem but it is difficult to configure it to be so.In particular it is difficult and stressful to understand all the knobs to turn within each cloud provider. It's a very AWS thing to put a lot of effort into lowering their customers' bills and I do think it makes for longer lasting business relationships.