Avoiding That $1M Dollar AWS Bill - Mark Michael, Glenn Oppegard
summary
A legacy Rails monolith hosting six terabytes of customer data moves from a pet-style Blue Box setup to Cloud Foundry on AWS then to GCP, automated with Terraform/BOSH/Concourse, using an SSL MySQL relay into EC2 then RDS to sync data, and rehearsed cutovers that complete in 3 hours. Load tests use thousands of EC2 browsers plus Artillery and New Relic, deployments become CF push blue‑green canaries, and monthly costs fall from ~$55k on AWS to ~$22k on GCP, avoiding the projected $1M AWS year.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 1:42Tracker Hosting: The Journey
- 6:04Security on
- 9:35First, we panicked
- 10:18Updating the app to run in the cloud
- 10:29Updating the app to run in cloud
- 11:10Minimizing impact on customers
- 12:46Load and Performance
- 14:08The Cutover
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