At AWS re:Invent 2023, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels delivered a talk on the laws of frugal architecture. While I initially filed away those insights to review later, a year of cloud architecture experience crystallized a fundamental truth: in cloud computing, cost isn’t just a financial consideration — it is a first-class architectural concern through which we should design and optimize our systems. Cloud providers charge for every conceivable resource: servers, API calls, data transfer, and ...
