This startup was burning $11.4k/month on cloud with an 800-user product. A cost audit found databases running at 12% CPU with 25% memory utilization.…
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@getpacketai.bsky.socialThis startup was burning $11.4k/month on cloud with an 800-user product. A cost audit found databases running at 12% CPU with 25% memory utilization.…
@getpacketai.bsky.socialYour AI features are costing way more than the invoice shows. One engineer's measurements reveal why shared API keys hide the real culprits—and how to fix it in one wrapper.
https://dev.to/devopsdaily/knowing-what-your-ai-feature-costs-before-finance-does-303e
@getpacketai.bsky.socialYour cloud bill isn't a finance problem—it's a design document. Every charge reflects an architectural choice. Start reading your costs as engineering data.
https://dev.to/ksoft_technologies_33f7f6/your-cloud-bill-is-a-design-document-4nh7
@infrajump.bsky.socialA VM running for months can look like an obvious reservation candidate.
Before committing, check whether it can be resized and whether it will still exist next year.
@getpacketai.bsky.socialEven well-run engineering teams can overspend on logging: this team paid $2,200/month for OpenSearch nodes to keep 14 months of data searchable when 98% of queries…
https://dev.to/vlad_z_16b6320e21f32bee0d/an-18000-aws-bill-that-should-have-been-12000-4o15
@getpacketai.bsky.socialOne debug-level log group cost $900/month for 8 months before anyone noticed. A real-world AWS cost audit shows why log visibility and retention policies matter…
https://dev.to/vlad_z_16b6320e21f32bee0d/an-11400-aws-bill-and-cloudwatch-logs-was-2100-of-it-37aj
@getpacketai.bsky.socialRun these 12 kubectl queries before your next cloud cost review to measure what's requested, used, and billed in Kubernetes—the direct path to finding waste.
https://dev.to/pits2022/the-12-kubectl-queries-we-run-before-every-cloud-cost-review-2g61
@communityaws.bsky.social"AWS introduces Spend Limits for project-level cost control" by Nimesha Yasith
#aws-community #finops #cost-optimization #cost-allocation #cost
@communityaws.bsky.social"☁️ The Future of Cloud Computing: What Comes Next?" by Sudip Paramanik
@devtocash.bsky.socialThe agent proposes, a named human merges, every run lands in the audit trail.
Full build 👇
https://devtocash.com/blog/2026-10-07-rds-cost-agent-idle-instances-gp2-to-gp3-provisioned-iops-extended-support
#AWS #FinOps
@communityaws.bsky.social"The Ultimate AWS Cost Optimization Checklist for 2026" by Yashvi Kothari
#cost-optimization #finops #cost-savings
@ayraix.bsky.socialHow many AI subscriptions is your team expensing?
📸 https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db_Eb8Ys3ho/
🌐 https://ayraix.com/trendz/tech/shadow-ai-spend-hits-the-p-and-l/
#Trending #ShadowAI #AIGovernance #FinOps #SaaSSpend #Procurement
@communityaws.bsky.social"The Frugal AI Team: Building a Cost-Optimized, Multi-Agent System with LangGraph and AWS" by BHAVISHYA RAJ
#aws-community #langgraph #agentic-ai #amazon-bedrock #finops
@eyalestrin.bsky.socialEnforcing Per-User AI Spend Limits on Google Cloud Vertex AI #finops
@eyalestrin.bsky.socialWe’re going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything #finops
@communityaws.bsky.social"10 AWS Resources That Charge You While You Sleep" by Fahad Khan
@devtocash.bsky.socialCoverage is a ratio. Cut idle workloads first: coverage rises for $0 and the floor you'd commit to shrinks. Run this agent last.
Full build 👇
@communityaws.bsky.social"Cómo Construir un Agente Autónomo de Despliegue con Amazon Bedrock, MCP y AWS CDK 🛠️☁️" by Abraham Alonso
#agentic-ai #architecture #serverless #devops #finops
@communityaws.bsky.social"The First Copy Is Free: How We Cut CloudTrail Costs by 90% After Finding Trails Nobody Remembered" by Abhishek Joshi
#aws-cloudtrail #cost-optimization #finops #aws-organizations #cloud-operations
@darryl-ruggles.cloud#Karpenter #EKS #SpotInstances #Kubernetes #FinOps
There are many ways to optimize EC2 and EKS spend on AWS. One approach is using Spot instances, which AWS can reclaim on short notice.