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Cut ours by over 40% too: https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2023/06/aws-aurora-cut-our-database-costs-for-sql-constantcare-again/ https://www.brentozar.com/arch

• fosterfriends 3y ago
  wild part is that there's been zero observable difference in performance for this config change, I think it's just a difference in billing calculation.
  • avisser 3y ago
    > I think it's just a difference in billing calculation Agree. It feels like an actuary ran some numbers and found that high I/O customers spend more on other AWS services and are more profitable than low I/0 tenants, so they changed the formula to reduce churning those high I/0 tenants.
    • jacobegold 3y ago
      This feels likely!
  • EwanToo 3y ago
    Our commit latency dropped when we turned it on, so _something_ changed on a technical level