The Cloud Ledger
Tried this on our AWS environment and it was really helpful. We found a few Auto Scaling Groups that had been over provisioned for a long time and managed to cut our compute costs. I also liked the advice to measure everything before making changes because it saved us from making a costly mistake. Great post and very practical.
Re: “Right-sizing EC2: the audit that cut our bill 31%”Kind words
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Moved a bunch of our services to Graviton after reading this. Around 20% cheaper with basically no downside for us. Honestly kicking myself for not doing it sooner 😄
Re: “Graviton: the easiest 20% cost cut you’re not taking”This was really helpful. The explanation of chunking and retrieval cleared up a lot of the issues we were running into while setting up RAG on AWS. Definitely saved us a lot of trial and error.
Re: “RAG on AWS: Bedrock Knowledge Bases end to end”This was exactly what I needed. We finally replaced our long-lived AWS keys with OIDC, and the setup was much smoother than I expected. Shared it with the team right away.
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