The Night Shift Strategy for Cloud Savings Your Non-Prod Environments Are Burning Money While You Sleep A typical engineering team works 8 to 10 hours per day, Monday through Friday. Their dev and staging environments run 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. That means non-production infrastructure sits completely idle for 128 hours every week while still generating charges. The Flexera
1. The access collection black hole You need Figma access, Google Analytics, WordPress admin, GitHub, and the client's Slack. You ask. They forward a password email from two years ago. You ask again. Their developer says they'll get back to you. Three days pass. The fix: Send a single, complete access list on Day 1 — not "we'll need some access" but the exact list, with specifics for each tool,