Saving on AWS? If not, what are you waiting for?
summary
Claims concrete savings from AWS best practices: average 6% average EC2 utilization and 90% of S3 objects accessed once drive massive waste, moving old M4→M7 generations and retyping to Graviton/AMD cuts costs ~40–50%, GP3 volumes are 20% cheaper than GP2, Elastic IPs idle cost ~$5/month each (one cleanup recovers $35k), 80% of DBs remain self‑managed so switching to Aurora Serverless and Compute Optimizer (32‑day, customized rightsizing) yields repeated 25–50%+ savings and automated discount management.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction and agenda
- 1:45Shocking usage statistics
- 6:22EC2 optimization strategies
- 11:51Retyping and right sizing
- 14:15AWS compute optimizer
- 21:39Storage and volume tips
- 29:56Networking best practices
- 35:05RDS optimization
- 40:00Financial engineering
- 41:33Execution and cultural change
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