Lambda Logs Just Got a Whole Lot Cheaper*
Finally! AWS brings tiered pricing to Lambda’s CloudWatch logs, potentially saving high-volume customers thousands, and adds S3 and Firehose as new logging destinations.
RDS Reserved Instances: Where Did All the New Instance Types Go?
AWS is excluding newer RDS instance types from Reserved Instance purchases. Is this oversight or the quiet continuation of their RI deprecation strategy?
Every Byte You Take: How Cloud Ingestion Pricing Eats Your Budget
Remember the days of over-provisioned data centers, where enterprises hoarded servers like survivalists prepping for the apocalypse? The cloud promised to end all that with its pay-as-you-go model—but the reality isn’t so simple. From ingestion-based pricing traps to skyrocketing data movement costs, your AWS bill can balloon faster than a debug log filled with database dumps. In this post, we explore the true cost of cloud data management, share tips to rein in runaway expenses, and help you decide: Is the cloud truly better for your bottom line?