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Cost-effective scaling & engineering efficiency w/ Shailesh Kumar #122

The Engineering Leadership Podcast

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How to Control Cloud Costs

I think the first thing you should look at your architecture if it is laid out correctly. Getting smaller instance types and getting more of a community hardware is much cheaper on AWS, GCP or any of these cloud vendors than getting a massive big box. As long as you understand that, I think you can drive a lot of value from cloud. It might not be expensive right now, but as you scale, get more customers vertically scaling will be really expensive.

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