Projects & Technical Analysis
Real infrastructure. Real cost questions. Independent engineering analysis of AWS spending patterns, Kubernetes workload efficiency, and network telemetry.
$73/mo EKS Cluster vs $4,200 Pod Overprovisioning
Analyzing the discrepancy between the $73 AWS control plane fee and the massive hidden costs of excessive pod CPU limits across 24 worker nodes.
11 Unused Load Balancers & The $242/mo Silent Bleed
How legacy ALB and NLB listeners pointing to empty target groups quietly accumulated costs unnoticed by developer squads for 8 consecutive months.
Cross-AZ Traffic & NAT Gateway Routing Flaws
A deep investigation into an AI startup routing internal S3 image datasets through an internet-facing NAT Gateway instead of a free VPC Gateway Endpoint.
RDS Multi-AZ vs Read Replica Spend in Staging
Eliminating automated Multi-AZ failover and over-allocated provisioned IOPS on non-production Aurora clusters without compromising test fidelity.
The Hidden Pitfalls of Compute Savings Plans
Why locking into a 3-year commitment before rightsizing EC2 and EKS workloads costs fast-growing startups 25% more than remaining on-demand.
gp2 to gp3 Migration & Orphaned Snapshot Pruning
Automated migration across 180 block storage volumes yielding immediate 20% baseline savings and improved IOPS bursting characteristics.
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