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Cloud cost is an architecture problem

Rightsizing gets you 20%. Architecture gets you the rest.

J. Mbeki22 June 20267 min read
cloud cost is an architecture problem article

Most cost programmes stop at instance sizing and reserved capacity. That is the easy 20%.

Where the money actually goes

Cross-zone traffic, chatty services and over-replicated storage usually dominate.

J. Mbeki

VP, Cloud & Reliability

Writes about cloud operations and reliability engineering.

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