Ask HN: Biggest wins when reducing cloud computing costs
I'm curious about the best ways people have found to reduce cloud infrastructure costs.
Has moving from a third-party service to a self-managed solution been worth the additional work required? What about simply shopping around and switching from one vendor to another?
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 14.5 ms ] threadRearchitecting your application to avoid $10K a month in cross-AZ replication may make sense. Doing that to save $10 a month is likely ridiculous.
Migrating between vendors to save a few bucks is generally a fool's errand for anything that's sufficiently complex. Find a platform, commit to it, and then work to leverage resources responsibly within that platform.
Remember that "elastic" means scaling down as well as up.