I have problems raising a PO for $10, it's a massive hassle to go through to explain to people nowhere near my department how it works
Spinning up an AWS instance costing $10 a month is trivial because the buisness has decided to empower employees with unlimited funds to spend on it.
So how can I spin up a $10 a month "instance" which goes to say ffmpeg developers, or apache developers, or openjdk developers, or whatever, with only a small overhead going to AWS and the majority of that money going to the people my business relies on.
One of the core points in the original article is that the invoices should be for 5 or 6 figures. $10/month = $120/year quite simply isn't worth the effort to collect
Spinning up an AWS instance costing $10 a month is trivial because the buisness has decided to empower employees with unlimited funds to spend on it.
So how can I spin up a $10 a month "instance" which goes to say ffmpeg developers, or apache developers, or openjdk developers, or whatever, with only a small overhead going to AWS and the majority of that money going to the people my business relies on.