> Fast forward about a year, and an uncountable amount of hours spent by both my team, and Azure solutions specialists, kindly lent to us by the Azure org itself, we all agreed the six figure bill to one of corporate daddy's largest competitors would have to stay!
Being tied to AWS and being unable to shake off a huge bill is not a trait of its competitors. It's a trait of AWS, and stresses the importance of not picking them as your cloud provider.
Also, I think it's unbelievable that a monthly 6-figure invoice charged to a company already with cloud engineers in their payroll is not justification enough to shift their workload elsewhere.
Low 6 figures is just a dev. If a team of 5 devs has to work on the problem for 5 years, then it will pay for itself in 25 years. Likely beyond any planning horizon of a company with yearly performance evaluation cycles.
In Europe, even the likes of Amazon pays it's SDEs 70k/year. In Sweden, for example, Microsoft pays it's SDEs south of 800k SEK, which is about 70k dollars/year.
Low 6 figures is an entire team of Microsoft SDEs working full time for a year.
Being tied to AWS and being unable to shake off a huge bill is not a trait of its competitors. It's a trait of AWS, and stresses the importance of not picking them as your cloud provider.
Also, I think it's unbelievable that a monthly 6-figure invoice charged to a company already with cloud engineers in their payroll is not justification enough to shift their workload elsewhere.