Just the Links
Volume 6
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Just the Links - Volume 6
How Intercom Optimizes EC2 Costs
A good find from the F2 Slack channels. They seem to be big advocates of Spot Instances, which is IMHO and underrated and underutilized tool.
Amazon S3 Glacier Price Reduction
All PUT and lifecycle charges are reduced by 40%
Serverless Kubernetes on CTO.ai
This is intriguing, but I’m highly skeptical.
Five Ways to Save Costs on AWS Fargate
Short version: Savings plans, spot instances, tagging, right-sizing, and auto-scaling. Things that you should be doing anyway.
X2gd for Memory-Intensive Workloads
Promises up to 55% better pricing over X1 processors.
Can Graviton Win a Three-Way Compute Race at AWS?
A very detailed and very good overview of what AWS is doing with ARM based processors. It rightfully points out that AWS is dropping the ball on instance type comparisons in terms of their raw compute because of the performance differences in ARM vs. Xeon processors. Very much worth the read.
AWS S3 Object Lambda
Processes data as it is retrieved from S3 storage. A great tool that may be better than pulling ETL data and processing it later. Datanami has a good write up on it too.
AWS FSx for Lustre Storage Quotas
Storage quotas have long been used for security and cost controls.
Manage Your Azure Spend Using Azure Cost Management
A high level, simple overview of using the Azure Cost Management tools to optimize and surface spend in your Azure accounts. Loaded with details and good screenshots.
Dirt Cheap Machine Learning - gpu.land
A little skeptical of the claims here (1/3 the cost of AWS and GCP) but may be worth your time to look at.
Infracost diff
Infracost has a new feature that does a diff (like `git diff`) for your infrastructure changes.
Cast.ai Service Cuts AWS bill between 50-90%
Again, a little skeptical of these claims.
Optimizing AWS Lambda costs using multiprocessing in node.js
A good overview on using the `child_process` feature in nodejs to fork processes.
Abusing the CUR for fun and profit
Shows how to read the CUR to get the most information possible. Better than using Cost Explorer.
Google Cloud Service Comparison
GCP released a side-by-side service comparison to show alignments between AWS and Azure. There’s some minor mistakes in there (it’s CodeBuild, not CloudBuild) but overall a decent table.
Serverless Security Paradigms
Considerations when implementing serverless. Fairly high level and mostly just good reminders on best security practice.
AWS ECS Product Name Change in the CUR
It will now be listed as Elastic Container Service and not EC2 Container Service. This will effect your reporting.
Cost Reporting Based on AWS Organizations Account ID Tags
Detailed tutorial on setting up reporting by account for folks using AWS Organizations. Good screenshots and an example CF stack.