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Google Is All About Cost Control Now

by drubio on 4/26/23, 1:58 AM with 5 comments

• by akhayam on 4/26/23, 2:47 AM

  “AWS cloud unit was generating operating profits of more than $2 billion a quarter when at a similar revenue level.”

  I was at AWS when this was unfolding and cost was never an afterthought. I also felt that the best way to control costs is to make it a section in design docs. This would force the developers to consider costs when proposing design alternatives for a new service or enhancing an existing service.

• by drubio on 4/26/23, 2:02 AM

  https://archive.is/5F54l

• by spoonjim on 4/26/23, 7:18 AM

  Businesses are supposed to care a lot about cost control. The fact that they didn’t for a long time was the anomaly.