AWS Insiders

Who Wants to Save a Billion Dollars?

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Aug 21, 2023
In this podcast, the hosts analyze over a billion dollars of AWS spending and share lessons on how to optimize costs. They explore a financial literacy platform, discuss AWS news, costs of deploying applications, decision-making for multi-region redundancy, and advantages of Aurora databases.
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INSIGHT

Patterns From $1 Billion Of AWS Spend

  • CloudFix analyzed over $1 billion of AWS spend and derived broad patterns from thousands of customers and accounts.
  • Large-scale bill analysis reveals repeatable cost-saving opportunities across compute, storage, network, and RDS.
ANECDOTE

Wealthie Works Daily Product And Scale Needs

  • Hilary describes Wealthie Works Daily as a fintech and media platform that builds gift cards to open investment accounts for kids.
  • The product targets scaling for global launches and needs secure, scalable infrastructure for content and transactions.
ADVICE

Modernize And Right-Size Compute

  • Modernize instances to the latest generation and right-size them to actual usage to cut EC2 waste dramatically.
  • Start new workloads on Graviton and migrate Intel instances to AMD or Graviton for better price-performance.
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