I've worked for a certain IoT startup that at one point paid $850k/month (eight hundred and fifty thousand USD per month) for AWS usage. After about a year of f

I've worked for a certain IoT startup that at one point paid $850k/month (eight hundred and fifty thousand USD per month) for AWS usage. After about a year of full time work by a team of SREs and programmers, the bill was made to go down by half.