Cutting Cloud Costs in COVID-19!
summary
Claims a 30% cut in two weeks without buying reserved instances by combining three tactics: buy reserved instances cautiously, schedule shutdowns 7pm–7am weekdays plus weekends (yielding ~37% savings vs reserved pricing in one analysis), and move ephemeral workloads to spot instances. Uses Jenkins CI build slaves on spot with mixed-instance policies and instance flexibility, watches the spot interruption notice to shut down cleanly, sees <2% interruption rate since May, and recommends AWS Config for tagging.
AI-written summary · about
related talks
21mHow you can scale up with Amazon EC2 for up to 90% less
17mWhen Clouds Stop Raining Discounts: Surviving the Drought
49mAWS Cost Reduction - Experiences and Strategies
32mBlending Spot and On-Demand Instances and Optimizing Costs
43mSpot Instances
42mAWS Spot instances: huge savings (or huge risks?)
33mHow we do cloud cost efficiency at Notion
41mA cloud cost savings spectacular