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A couple of years ago, I optimize some shit and reduced the annual billing of 150k€/y, for a 3 days of work

I might say, "hardware" is expensive compared to (my) salary :)

There isn’t always low hanging fruit. And when there is, it likely requires engineering knowledge to know it exists.

There almost always is, actually. If you’re in the cloud and aren’t a tiny startup, that means you’ve had team[s] building your infrastructure, probably led by devs at some point.

It doesn’t take engineering knowledge to browse through CloudWatch metrics and see that your average CPU utilization is in the single digits.

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