If you have used AWS (or any other major cloud provider), you’ll probably have noticed how your bill suddenly contains significant charges that you’re not completely sure about where come from.
Especially in cases where you are growing and scaling fast, initial decisions made during early stages might not make sense (or be remembered at all) 2 years down the road.
How do you clean things up? We cut 2/3rds of our cloud cost with a limited effort by creating cost visibility, and applying a bit of common sense. This talk will give a quick overview of some of the unneeded cost-sinks that we found.
