Viktar Patotski ·
· Performance
· 9 min read AWS says Graviton gives up to 40 percent better price-performance. I put the same Spring app on same-rank Intel, AMD, and Graviton instances and measured it. It is true, I got 43 to 60 percent, but the reason is not that Graviton is faster. It is cheaper, and same vCPU does not mean same cores.
Viktar Patotski ·
· Cloud & Cost
· 6 min read Most AWS bills carry 20 to 40 percent waste, and cutting it does not take a FinOps team. This is the whole method in four steps: see where the money goes, kill the waste, pay less for what remains, and keep the bill down for good. Each step links to its own deep dive.
Viktar Patotski ·
· Cloud & Cost
· 9 min read Your AWS bill is not a mystery, you just have not grouped it right. Cost Explorer is free and shows you where every dollar goes in about fifteen minutes. Here is the exact drill-down, which cost view to trust, and the one free alarm to set before you close the tab.
Viktar Patotski ·
· Cloud & Cost
· 9 min read Graviton instances cost up to 20% less than the x86 equivalent for the same work. On managed services it is a setting you flip. On your own compute it is a real migration with real gotchas. Here is which workloads move for free, which take effort, and which cannot move at all.
Viktar Patotski ·
· Cloud & Cost
· 10 min read Aurora can be cheaper than RDS or twice the price, and the deciding line item is the one nobody watches: I/O. Here is how the bill is built, when I/O-Optimized and Serverless v2 actually save money, and the traps that turn a managed database into your biggest surprise.
Viktar Patotski ·
· Cloud & Cost
· 10 min read Both trade a commitment for a discount, but they are not interchangeable. Savings Plans buy flexibility, Reserved Instances buy the deepest rate, and the data tier plays by its own rules. Here is how to pick without locking up capital you will regret.