There was a post here a little awhile ago from Fair Eng. team that mentioned how they _saved_ hundreds of thousands annually on their AWS ES bill through some c

There was a post here a little awhile ago from Fair Eng. team that mentioned how they _saved_ hundreds of thousands annually on their AWS ES bill through some change or another. Hundreds. of. thousands. I couldn't fathom a situation where they needed that much hardware to return some car listings. Even if you had every car in the world in their database (~1 billion) at ~10k/doc, that's only 10GB of data. And how many people could possibly be looking to rent/lease a car at any single time? So between two pretty guessable ceilings (data size + traffic) it was red flags everywhere.