I have permission to go on a bit of a rant about this tweet-question, so let's get right to it.
I've heard of worse ideas but not recently. A thread.
I've heard of worse ideas but not recently. A thread.
https://twitter.com/grittygandalf/status/1417315289327357952
The big problem that enterprises have is that the @awscloud bill is a game of Corporate Telephone between the person who receives the bill but has no context, and the person who can impact the bill who's five nodes away.
"Let's make sure that last person can never see the bill!"
"Let's make sure that last person can never see the bill!"
Enterprise cloud deployments have their own fair share of problems, don't get me wrong. I just have a very hard time believing that "too many of our employees are looking at the bill" is in that list.
"Our discounts would be exposed to internal staff, and that's confidential!"
Yes. "How big of a discount you get from @awscloud" is exactly the kind of secret you can't trust to the people to whom you've entrusted admin access to production. Right.
Yes. "How big of a discount you get from @awscloud" is exactly the kind of secret you can't trust to the people to whom you've entrusted admin access to production. Right.
https://twitter.com/grittygandalf/status/1417315855126482946?s=20
Plus, let me level with you: in large enterprises, there are anywhere between 2-4 overlapping discount contracts. If you can reverse engineer the terms from the bill output alone, I would very much like to chat about your future job here at The @DuckbillGroup.
"I'm not convinced it makes sense, since we're not focusing on AWS bill optimization this quarter."
Okay. Okay.
1. That will change.
2. The bill is the only place you can see everything (billable) in your account all in one place.
Okay. Okay.
1. That will change.
2. The bill is the only place you can see everything (billable) in your account all in one place.
There's a reason that one of our offerings here isn't just understanding these monstrosities, but *negotiating* them.
https://twitter.com/baileycyber/status/1417320307401109504?s=20
Look, I'm not saying that you need to expose everything to everyone. I'm merely suggesting that you should ideally be in a situation where telling someone "your cluster cost $20K last month" means that they know whether they're getting fired or promoted.
Ding ding ding. There's a reason that our Tableau bill is almost as much as our AWS bill.
https://twitter.com/ninthhostage/status/1417324071885357056?s=20
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