Cutting down AWS cost by $150k per year simply by shutting things off
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#2Shit... I reduced our spend on one AWS account from $270K a month to $75K a month.
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#3Cloud optimization is the next Kubernetes.
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#4I've mentioned this before, in my company (big media company) I saw some S3 costs creeping up each month. I looked into it and it was a system we abandoned that was still copying files to this bucket.
I reached out to the team and they turned it off, it saved us $1m a year. The higher-ups rewarded me by telling me that a team should have caught this so I should meet with them now.
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#5I've mentioned this before, in my company (big media company) I saw some S3 costs creeping up each month. I looked into it and it was a system we abandoned that was still copying files to this bucket. I reached out to the team and they turned it off, it saved us $1m a year. The higher-ups rewarded me by telling me that a team should have caught this so I should meet with them now.
true. the first step is to have visibility into what's eating the bill. it's just like you need to profile the program before optimizing it.
that's why we did finops dashboard first thing when we first started the cloud journey.
can't optimize if you dont know.
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#6If you're spending $425k per year on non-production AWS resources, you have an interesting setup.
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#7Small fry, I saved a public sector body $1m/year by doing this and rightsizing the kubernetes hosts. :D
Re: Cutting down AWS cost by $150k per year simply by shutting things off
#8Cloud optimization is the next Kubernetes.
Goodness I hope so, that'll be easy money
Re: Cutting down AWS cost by $150k per year simply by shutting things off
#9I've mentioned this before, in my company (big media company) I saw some S3 costs creeping up each month. I looked into it and it was a system we abandoned that was still copying files to this bucket. I reached out to the team and they turned it off, it saved us $1m a year. The higher-ups rewarded me by telling me that a team should have caught this so I should meet with them now.
It's truly fascinating how companies won't bat at an eye at spending ungodly amounts of money on things they don't need, but will sweat profusely at the thought of a tiny fraction of that going towards additional compensation.
Re: Cutting down AWS cost by $150k per year simply by shutting things off
#10I've mentioned this before, in my company (big media company) I saw some S3 costs creeping up each month. I looked into it and it was a system we abandoned that was still copying files to this bucket. I reached out to the team and they turned it off, it saved us $1m a year. The higher-ups rewarded me by telling me that a team should have caught this so I should meet with them now.
You got rewarded with more meetings? Not a bonus?