There are five ways to pay for Amazon EC2 instances: On-Demand, Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, and Spot Instances. Learn how each is priced.| Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Written interview in early February, 2022. Learn more about Smruti on linkedin, twitter and on LeadDev. Tell us a little about your current role: where do you work, your title and generally the sort of work you and your team do. I currently lead the Data Platform group at Stripe – we operate the centralized data lake, and the bigdata, async & stream processing infrastructure for Stripe’s mission-critical business, while ensuring security, reliability and efficiency.| infraeng.dev
Fork this template on Google Docs Negotiating contracts is an important part of managing costs, but it’s also something that you only do infrequently. Particularly in an earlier stage company, you might only negotiate one large contract a year. It’s quite hard to get better at something that you do so infrequently, but using a checklist is one way to be consistent in your approach, and to ensure learnings from one negotiation carry over into the next.| infraeng.dev
Fork this template on Google Docs As your company gets larger and more complex, it’s easy to become embroiled in supporting incoming asks from other teams. That’s important work, but it’s also important that your team is operating effectively and prioritizing your goals in addition to the goals of other teams making requests. If you’re getting mixed signals on whether your team is doing the right work, the Business Review Template can help cut through the confusion.| infraeng.dev
Early on in your company’s lifetime, you’ll form the seed of your infrastructure organization: a small team of four to eight engineers. Maybe you’ll call it the infrastructure team. It’s very easy to route infrastructure requests, because they all go to that one team. Later on, things are easy as well. You have seventy engineers spread across eight to ten mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive teams with names like Storage, Traffic, and Compute. You’ll pull up the organizati...| Infrastructure Engineering
Fork this template on Google Docs Healthy engineering organizations make a lot of technical decisions. Many of those decisions impact multiple teams (Frontend, Backend) and functions (Engineering, Product, Customer Success, Finance). It’s normal to either feel like you’re moving too slow (“too many stakeholders in every decision”) or that your reckless pace creates frequent rework as issues are discovered late (“this problem would have been obvious if you’d just talked to Security...| Infrastructure Engineering