Ask HN: How do you control your inflating AWS bill?
Hey HN,
I'll cut straight to the chase here, our AWS bill is creeping up faster than we can actually control our resources and I need some help. I work for compute intensive AI SaaS company and that had a pretty big spike in traffic last month so now our AWS costs are at least 3x. Currently we don't really have that manpower to manage the bill so I would appreciate any advice that you'll throw at me. (People to follow, tools, blogs, or just any sort of general tips)
What we considered:
-Spot instances, but that very short shutdown notice doesn't sound attractive to our workloads
-AWS savings plans, though we aren't keen on that long term commitment
-I've seen many people mention calling AWS support, so do we just bargain there to get better prices?
I'll cut straight to the chase here, our AWS bill is creeping up faster than we can actually control our resources and I need some help. I work for compute intensive AI SaaS company and that had a pretty big spike in traffic last month so now our AWS costs are at least 3x. Currently we don't really have that manpower to manage the bill so I would appreciate any advice that you'll throw at me. (People to follow, tools, blogs, or just any sort of general tips)
What we considered: -Spot instances, but that very short shutdown notice doesn't sound attractive to our workloads -AWS savings plans, though we aren't keen on that long term commitment -I've seen many people mention calling AWS support, so do we just bargain there to get better prices?