^this. The $39.50/hr they quote (~80k salary) isn't much for NYC, especially with a family. I make more than that in my small town working remotely for a SF bay area company and I wouldn't move there without ~$125k minimum.
So basically at their peak, they had ~174TB S3 and ~47TB S3 RRS. That month cost them ~$16.2k, whereas after April 1 they could have put everything in S3 for ~$6.7k. That's a big difference, but they were still getting taken to the cleaners over some other services like RDS.
100% agree. It's especially hard for teams that are learning both Git and Gerrit at the same time. I both administer and provide support for the Gerrit instance where I work and it has become a huge exercise in babysitting permissions configuration on the server side and dealing with angry users. They get themselves in to lots of "stuck" situations due to a lack of understanding, and it is now possibly building in to a revolt. For the record, I didn't pick Gerrit! :-) Fun times.
> For a minute or two, I thought about doing my final set. Then, I reminded myself that I plan to do this for the rest of my life and decided to call it a day.