I'm building a deployment tool and comparing costs across many small applications. For a typical lightly used Node.js app in a development environment in us-east-1, the monthly bill…
We manage roughly 40 Azure subscriptions with annual spend in the mid-seven figures. The environment is mostly PaaS, with two AKS clusters, and tagging is already enforced through…
I'm trying to reduce Azure Data Explorer costs for several clients by moving clusters to the next smaller engine SKU when CPU utilization is below 45%, cache utilization…
I'm setting up an Azure SQL Managed Instance for a college's CIS department, but the pricing estimate is around $1,400 per month, which is beyond our budget. Are…
For months, I assumed our Kubernetes cost problem required better tooling. Then we discovered that cluster CPU utilization was only around 25% because teams had heavily padded their…
I'm in my final year of university and originally started learning backend development. I've always been interested in moving toward DevOps, but first wanted to understand the foundations—databases,…
My full-stack application runs on Lambda, and the bill has somehow reached an absurd $3.5 billion. Could switching the functions from x86_64 to ARM64 meaningfully reduce compute costs,…
We're looking for a way to reduce costs by stopping our Elasticsearch and OpenSearch environments during off-business hours and starting them again when needed. The clusters currently run…
I run an uptime monitoring service that checks various protocols every two minutes from multiple regions. Each check creates a row in BigQuery, and I'm starting to worry…
I've been running a small ECS/Fargate setup, but my recent AWS bill shot up to around $1,000. To my surprise, the compute costs weren't the main issue. The…
I recently received a $1,000 bill from AWS while running a small ECS/Fargate setup, and it caught me off guard. I expected compute costs to be the main…
I have a staging cluster with several microservices that typically runs 24/7, but I've noticed it just sits idle at night and on weekends, which feels like a…
I'm curious about managing EBS volumes automatically. We know it's tough to shrink or grow block storage volumes, whether on-premises or in the cloud, especially given that EC2…
Managing AWS Savings Plans can be quite the headache. Every quarter, I find myself stuck in this repetitive cycle of analyzing usage patterns to predict future compute needs,…
I'm looking for advice on how to identify any unused resources like EC2 instances and S3 buckets in our pre-production environments. Are there any free tools available from…
I've managed to run Llama 3.2 on AWS Lambda with cold starts consistently under 500ms. Initially, I was hesitant to invest in a dedicated SageMaker endpoint or a…
I've been diving into AWS lately, but I keep forgetting to delete my test resources, which has led to some unexpected charges on my bills - like three…
I've noticed that many organizations are moving to cloud or hybrid environments, but rightsizing during these migrations often seems to be a significant hassle. It appears that many…
I'm working on a client project and need guidance on optimizing AWS Config costs. I'm not very familiar with this service, so I could use help figuring out…
I'm curious about practical examples of how different teams have successfully optimized their cloud costs using Azure. There seems to be a lot of theoretical information out there,…