sanitation — within a month, devs will be on personal accounts or finding free tier alternatives. Not because they’re circumventing policy, but because the cap makes their actual work harder. We capped AWS per-team and people started using the free tier, which was slower, which meant longer dev cycles, which killed more time than the savings. Cost control that makes core work slower isn’t control, it’s just tax. Better: measure what actually ships faster vs. slower per tool and let that inform spend.
sanitation — within a month, devs will be on personal accounts or finding free tier alternatives. Not because they’re circumventing policy, but because the cap makes their actual work harder. We capped AWS per-team and people started using the free tier, which was slower, which meant longer dev cycles, which killed more time than the savings. Cost control that makes core work slower isn’t control, it’s just tax. Better: measure what actually ships faster vs. slower per tool and let that inform spend.