Scalability of the cloud outweighs most other considerations but ballooning cloud costs is a genuine problem — especially if they’re starting to affect your bottom line. Let me provide few options to save on the cloud cost, some without even involving your engineering team.
One of our customers’ cloud accounts gave me a jolt. Such a strong one, in fact, that here I am typing furiously into the night. Working on that account and seeing the final results took me aback.
They managed to bring down annual cloud costs by a cool $2 million…
Spot Instances provide up to 90% of the cost savings but dealing with them is like playing with fire. With an advance Kubernetes configuration, you can automate the workload transfer and mitigate the risk of interruptions.
Amazon defines a Spot Instance as ‘an unused EC2 instance that’s available for less than the On-Demand price.’
I call them significantly cheaper instances that AWS snatches away from you when it can get more money for them.
For example, when someone requests an On-Demand Instance or a Reserved Instance…
