Saving Money on Bedrock is Hard
A practical tour of the cost levers Bedrock offers — model selection, prompt caching, cross-region inference, prompt routers, provisioned throughput, and batch inference — and which ones are actually worth pulling.
Saving Money on Bedrock is HardThe "I Forgot to Delete It" Problem
Why automated detection beats prevention for catching forgotten AWS resources, and how to route cost anomalies to a ticket queue leadership already watches.
The "I Forgot to Delete It" ProblemDynamoDB Saved Us Thousands and Cost Us Months
DynamoDB's low infrastructure cost can mask high engineering costs. A look at when single-table design and eventual consistency hurt more than they help, and when DynamoDB is still the right choice.
DynamoDB Saved Us Thousands and Cost Us MonthsWhy is Your EBS Almost as Expensive as EC2?
EBS hides inside EC2-Other on your AWS bill. Use the EBS ratio - EBS spend divided by EC2 compute spend - to diagnose whether you're overpaying for block storage, snapshots, and forgotten volumes.
Why is Your EBS Almost as Expensive as EC2?Why Straight Lines (Probably) Mean AWS Waste
Flat cost lines and steady slopes in AWS billing often signal waste, not stability. Learn how to spot cost plateaus and deceptive growth patterns before they drain your budget.
Why Straight Lines (Probably) Mean AWS Waste