SREcon23 Europe/Middle East/Africa - When Clouds Stop Raining Discounts: Surviving the Drought

SREcon23 Europe/Middle East/Africa - When Clouds Stop Raining Discounts: Surviving the Drought

Max Blaze, Duolingo

We seemed to be all set in terms of AWS cost optimization–we had just finished migrating our largest, most costly services to the less expensive Graviton architecture and our projected savings forecasts for the year were looking fantastic. That is until March, when drastic changes in the AWS Spot market overturned all of our underlying assumptions. Suddenly, our “cheaper” machines were costing more and most …

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