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I’m convinced that once a company reaches ~$10m/year in AWS spend it becomes entirely reasonable to hire an in-house engineer whose sole job is to find cost sav
by cddotdotslash 3y ago
I’m convinced that once a company reaches ~$10m/year in AWS spend it becomes entirely reasonable to hire an in-house engineer whose sole job is to find cost savings opportunities. Literally a “find unused stuff and turn it off” engineer.
- 8organicbits 3y agoI've spent some time doing this. There's always old systems people don't really understand, ownership is poorly defined, and no one knows what happens if you turn it off. It's archeology. Understand what the system is doing and how it interacts with other systems and the business. If it looks unneeded back it up, stop the VM, wait and watch for fallout, and eventually terminate it.
- cddotdotslash 3y agoThere’s definitely a science to it. To complicate matters, the way you explore those connections, take backups, identify owners, and perform restores is different across pretty much every cloud service.