Recently we met one of our earliest collaborators and he invited us to have a look at its AWS account. Immediately, one aspect has caught our attention: he was running 6 m4.large EC2 hosts and one ElasticSearch cluster with 3 m4.large nodes. Any reason for using M4 instances? M4 instances were launched almost 4 years […]
Tag: Costs
Free business email for records stored in AWS Route 53 (updated)
If you are one of our many frequent readers, we think you remember that a while ago we described how to setup business email for free when your DNS records are stored in AWS Route 53. That post (available here) doesn’t contain anymore up-to-date information. It was based on a service provided by a company […]
For what is not Glacier?
Excluding costs, there are 2 main things that makes AWS great: large number of services offered and integration between those services. And for the last category, a good example is the integration between AWS S3 and Glacier. With only few clicks in the S3 console, you can create a lifecycle rule that automatically moves objects […]
CloudWatch metrics publisher using text files
A while ago, we wrote an article where we presented a library written by us that could help you reducing the CloudWatch bill based on a very simple idea: since you are charged per number of API calls, publish metrics in batches instead of publish them one by one. In the initial release of that […]
CloudWatch can be cheaper
CloudWatch is the solution provided by Amazon to monitor your AWS resources, but also your service behaviour. Most probably, if you have ever used DynamoDB or EC2, you noticed some nice graphs with statistics about a table or about an EC2 instance. Most of the AWS services provide by default and for free some basic […]
How data encoding can influence your bill
Because our recently published article about how to cut your S3 costs has had a very good feedback, we decided to dive deep into this subject and to explain how the encoding format you choose affects the S3 bill. S3 doesn’t know and doesn’t care what kind of files you insert. It’s up to you […]
How to reduce your S3 costs
Amazon S3 was the first service launched by AWS in March 2006. Among all words used to shape a disruptive product – scalable, reliable, fast, simple – one has been important: cheap. At that time, the cost was 2 orders of magnitude lower than operating your redundant data storage. Nowadays, S3 continues to be one […]
Exploit the free tier
Amazon Web Service has a program that offers to new customers a free usage tier for most of its services. This program expires 12 months after you sign up – from what we know, only AWS Redshift is the exception here, free tier for this service being offered for only 2 months. Basically, each service […]