Since Amazon Aurora launched in 2014, hundreds of thousands of customers have chosen Aurora to run their most demanding applications. Aurora provides unparalleled high performance and availability at global scale with full MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility at up to one-tenth the cost of commercial databases. Many customers benefit from the cost-effectiveness of Aurora’s current simple, pay-per-request […]| Amazon Web Services
Learn about scheduling workloads with Karpenter| karpenter.sh
Learn about scheduling workloads with Karpenter| karpenter.sh
We reduced by over 60% the EC2 instance cost of our 1000+ node globally-distributed log-producing application by migrating it entirely to EC2 Spot Fleet. We discuss some of the issues we faced and also present the log data recovery mechanism which helped enable this migration.| NextRoll
In my early career roles, I worked at companies that never worried about their infrastructure costs at all. They were simply too low a cost and growing too slowly for the Finance team to pay much attention to it. This “ignore it until it’s too large to ignore” approach served me well. Until it didn’t. Working at Uber, I was caught me off guard when a new Director joined and overnight infrastructure costs were recategorized from insignificant to requiring urgent, detailed review every ...| infraeng.dev