Really interesting read. We've been in a similar mindset and it really comes down to understanding what's driving your costs and being creative around ways to m

Really interesting read. We've been in a similar mindset and it really comes down to understanding what's driving your costs and being creative around ways to minimize it. As others on here mentioned bandwidth and data transfer is a huge cost so if there's a way to make your caching more aggressive it's a big and easy win. Beyond that the low hanging fruit is in using reserved instances - there are a few options there but are significantly cheaper than paying the on demand price. A shameless plug is I built a small visualization for the AWS detail log to help understand the cost drivers. All it is loading the data and visualizing it across a few dimensions but might come in handy for others - https://github.com/dangoldin/aws-billing-details-analysis https://github.com/dangoldin/aws-billing-details-analysis