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Similar situation where I've arrived recently: a big public sector org where the biggest expense each month is cloudwatch.

Try to say "no" or even "but" to the logging and monitoring request ticket... do you like having monthly income or not?

But we loves us some info porn.

Data lake after 2 years = data cesspit.

Soon consultant will be selling wastedata treatment systems.

That's a brilliant idea. /dev/null as a service. Charge per byte.

> Charge per byte

of unzipped data

I'd couldn't afford my backups then!

I guarantee we will not be upselling AWS egress fees to you though so think of the cost savings on recovery!

https://devnull-as-a-service.com/ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6637480 (2013)

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