Thread by @QuinnyPig

And now a thread about the @awscloud Organizational Stages of Grief. Tag yourself!

https://twitter.com/jhscott/status/1435789011096801283

Stage 0: You have an idea. You fit in the free tier.

Stage 1: You get a pile of Activate credits (anywhere from a pat on the head to $100K, though there are exceptions). This counterintuitively helps set you up for failure; if it's "free" to you, you don't practice good early hygiene.

Stage 2: OH SHIT. Your credits ran out, now you have to spend actual money.

Stage 3: You get a call from whomstever your AWS Account Manager is for that day's morning shift offering you a discount in return for a commitment.

"Sure, but why?"

"You're spending a million bucks a year with us."

Stage 4: Whomstever was handling your costing work on an ad-hoc basis needs supplementing. Possibly because of overwork. Possibly because they rage quit. It's time to look at building a cross-functional team. Possibly full time, possibly not.

Stage 5: You've got a team that focuses on this. Finance folks, a dedicated cadre of efficiency engineers, etc. You spend millions on them because they justify their entire annual budget by lunchtime on their first day.

So those are the growth / pain stages in a general sense. Specifics are of course more nuanced, and the "why you care" is more important than the dollar figure.

The first thing we ask clients here at The @DuckbillGroup is "why do you care what the @awscloud bill is?"

*Theoretically* there's a Stage 6 wherein @awscloud names a building / conference / service after you and multiple execs mistake @aselipsky for your account manager, but that is... uncommon.