I Cut a Startup's AWS Bill by 40%: Here's How
A few months ago, I was brought in by a Series A B2B SaaS startup. They were burning through their runway at an alarming rate, and their biggest expense outside of payroll was their AWS bill, which was sitting at a staggering $14,000 per month. They were preparing to hire a full-time Senior DevOps engineer for $130,000/yr just to manage the bleeding.
Instead, I offered them a flat-rate freelance architectural teardown. In 4 weeks, I re-architected their entire cluster, migrated their legacy workloads, and slashed their monthly AWS bill to just under $8,000—a 40% reduction, saving them over $70,000 a year while completely eliminating the need to hire a full-time infrastructure engineer.
Here is exactly how poorly designed cloud architectures bleed money, and the technical teardown of how I fixed it.
1. The Zombie Resources (Orphaned EBS Volumes & Snapshots)
The first thing I look for in any...
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