Baldomero da Costa

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Maricá, Brazil Joined Jan 2026

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Baldomero da Costa

@tinybird940946 · Jan 12, 2026

AWS Amazon Q was surprisingly helpful at saving me money

I was doing some end of year audit and noticed the aws bill higher than i thought i should be. Normally this is a PITA to track down orphaned crap and review all the details, but for the sake of laziness i tried out the AWS i guess its called amazon q and it looked into all my costs and helped me track down some orphaned elastic ips and some other noise and save me about 50% of my monthly bill from just left over experimental clutter. Nothing else, just passing along something that i normally would have groaned at dealing with and instead was pleasantly surprised

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@tinybird940946 · Jan 12, 2026

Snizhana Greba

@ticklishbear212897 · Jan 11, 2026 8:44 pm

To quote the The Clash: "Should I stay or should I go now?"

Need some advice. I work for a very large company in a specialized role and have been there for 2 years. About 3 months ago, we got a new CIO, and there was an upper management shakeup. The new regime decided they wanted to get rid of on-prem servers and either move to Cloud or SAAS Hosting. If they go to the cloud, I am safe, but if what I oversee goes to SAAS, then I am done immediately. They have not been communicating what they are learning, and told me back in late October, I would know by Thanksgiving, which became X-Mas, then became the 1st of the year. Now I am being told that in early Spring, they will decide. I find it incredibly stressful, and it really put a damper on my Holidays and trying to enjoy them with young kids at home. So I am looking for some non-biased feedback. Should I hang tight, or should I start aggressively looking?
Just to add a quick edit - The stress has really gotten to me. I have voiced my concerns and even had a few outbursts on conference calls. One of the most frustrating things is I have to constantly ask (once a week) one a status update, and they act like I am being unreasonable for wanting to know.

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