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Introduction I’ll be honest when I say running a high-traffic production environment on AWS is fun…. until you see the cloud bill. At first, you overprovision a bit of memory “just to be safe.” Containers stay up a little longer than needed. Logs? Oh, we log everything because, you know, one day you might need it. And cross-AZ...
Introduction In ad-tech, logs are not “nice to have.” They are the product’s heartbeat. Every impression, every click, every bid request — everything generates logs. Multiply that by millions of requests per minute, and you’re suddenly dealing with millions of events and TB’s of logs per day. That’s exactly where one of our...
Introduction If you’ve worked in production long enough, you’ve probably heard this: “Let’s right-size the services and reduce the AWS bill.” So we do it. We check CPU and memory metrics for a week. We reduce task sizes. Costs drop. Everyone’s happy. And then…. six months later, the bill increases again....
Introduction Reducing cloud costs is always the top priority and biggest headache for Devops Engineers, especially when using managed AWS services like ECS Fargate. For one of our Ad-Tech clients at TO THE NEW, we were already utilising Fargate Spot to reduce the ECS bill significantly. But we found that we could save even more money if...
Introduction Optimizing the cost of running production workloads is essential in today’s cloud-driven world. By using Amazon ECS with Fargate Spot instances, you can significantly reduce your cloud costs while also ensuring that your applications are reliable and functional. Fargate Spot offers a cost-effective solution, offering the...