This Hacker News thread is full of tips, tricks, and references to reducing Amazon AWS costs. There is plenty of good advice from cleaning up the data and releasing unused resources, to monitoring the reserved instances usage, to moving data from elastic volumes to the Amazon S3 for cheaper storage and smaller traffic bills.
Tag: cloud computing
Persisting state between AWS EC2 spot instances
“Persisting state between AWS EC2 spot instances” is a handy guide into using Amazon EC2 spot instances instead of on-demand or reserved instances and preserving the state of the instance between terminations. This is not something that I’ve personally tried yet, but with the ever-growing number of instances I managed on the AWS, this definitely looks like an interesting approach.
The Evolution of a Static Website
Next month I’m giving a talk on the evolution of the deployment tools and processes in the last couple of decades. This article is going along the same lines but over a much shorter period of time and only covering the static websites, not web applications. Still quite impressive as to how far and how fast the technology is changing.
MailChimp vs. Amazon SES + Mailwizz
Here’s an interesting story of moving away from MailChimp to a combined setup of Amazon SES and MailWizz, which resulted in overall 92% reduction of the monthly bill. Given it’s not the same functionality, but if you are technical enough and your requirements are simpler than all the functionality of the MailChimp, this looks like a good alternative.
AWS Application Load Balancer
I found this visual primer to the Application Load Balancing on the Amazon AWS quite interesting. Application Load Balancing is not something I am using just yet, but it’s getting there. With more and more services and pricing schemas available from Amazon, explaining things simply is not as easy as it may seem.