I'd like to nit-pick a little about the title.
They replaced a $500/mo bill with a $55/mo server. And at the same time increased what they could do before - run 5 extra staging environments!
While saving $445/mo isn't nothing, in my book enabling teams to freely run the staging environments they need is the real win here! Limiting testing resources can be a real drag on momentum in a project!
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