How I Reduced Our AWS Bill by 65% Through Infrastructure Optimization Published on: December 14, 2024 Ever looked at your AWS bill and wondered why it’s climbing month after month? That was exactly our situation six months ago when our startup’s cloud costs started eating into our runway. What happened

Picture this: It’s 3 AM, and I’m staring at my laptop screen, watching our production servers struggle under load while our AWS bill skyrockets. Sound familiar? That was me six months ago, facing what I lovingly called the “Lambda-Container Beast” – a complex system handling 10M+ daily requests that seemed

“The dashboard is 3 hours behind again!” This message used to haunt my Slack notifications. Our analytics pipeline was like that friend who’s always fashionably late – except there was nothing fashionable about delayed business insights. Today, our pipeline processes over 1TB of data daily with real-time dashboards that actually

As a Cloud Architect at a mid-sized SaaS company, I recently completed a large-scale migration to AWS that transformed our infrastructure and development processes. The project spanned six months and resulted in a fully modernized cloud platform that reduced our operational costs by 40% while significantly improving our system reliability