Managing cloud infrastructure can become costly if not optimized. This guide shares steps to significantly reduce AWS costs from $10,000 to $1,500 per month. Key actions include cleaning up ECR images, optimizing ECS Fargate services, managing S3 storage, converting VPN usage to SSH tunnels, right-sizing RDS and DocumentDB
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How We Decreased Our Monthly AWS Costs from $10,000 to $1,5001. Cleaning Up ECR ImagesProblemSolutionSavings2. Optimizing ECS Fargate ServicesProblemSolutionSavings3. Managing S3 Bucket StorageProblemSolutionSavings4. Converting VPN Usage to Secure SSH TunnelProblemSolutionSavings5. Right-Sizing RDS and DocumentDB InstancesProblemSolutionSavings6. Purchasing ECS Savings PlansProblemSolutionSavings7. Consolidating Load BalancersProblemSolutionSavings8. Removing Redundant IPv4 AddressesProblemSolutionSavings9. Removing a Redundant EnvironmentProblemSolutionSavings10. Right-Sizing Remaining ResourcesProblemSolutionSavingsTotal SavingsConclusion1 Comment
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