5 articles tagged with Ec2.
Spot cuts compute bills by 60-90%, but AWS can take the machine back in two minutes. Here's how we run real production on it without paging anyone.
A field-tested checklist for cutting an AWS bill, ordered by return on effort. Start with the free wins, end with the ones that need a meeting.
AWS gives you four ways to pay for compute and three of them cut the bill. Here is how to pick, and how to stack them without painting yourself into a corner.
Moving our fleet from x86 to Graviton promised 20% savings. We got 31%, but only after fixing native dependencies, a broken base image, and one nasty perf regression.
Three discounting mechanisms, three different commitments. The rules of thumb we use to pick, and the mistakes we made before settling on them.
