Many companies are strangely reluctant to spend money on hardware for developers. They might refuse to spend $1,000 on a better laptop to be used for the next three years by an employee, whose time costs them that much money in a single afternoon.
That's been a pet peeve of mine for so long. (Glad my current employer gets me the best 1.5ℓ machine from Dell every few years!)
On the other hand I've seen many overcapitalized pre-launch startups go for months with a $20,000+ AWS bill without thinking about it then suddenly panic about what they're spending; they'd find tens of XXXXL instances spun up doing nothing, S3 buckets full of hundreds of terabytes of temp files that never got cleared out, etc. With basic due diligence they could have gotten that down to $2k a month, somebody obsessive about cost control could have done even better.
