The answer was not always the cloud
Four of these moved workloads out of the building. One moved a workload back in, because a cloud arrangement was costing nine hundred dollars a month and slowing the work down. We decide that case by case, and we say so plainly when the popular answer is the wrong one.
Most of the money was already being spent
Servers nobody needed, a data center, a cloud bill sized for somebody else's business. In two of these the budget for the fix was already sitting in the monthly spend, which is the first place we look.
The time adds up quietly
Ten minutes to log in. Five-minute jobs taking fifteen. A day a month lost to a login path. None of it looks like a problem on any given morning, and all of it is money once you multiply by the number of people doing it.
On the numbers. Every figure on this page came from the business partner it belongs to, and each of them read the write-up before it went up. Where growth followed the work, we say it followed rather than claiming we caused it.
