50% off our AWS bill — What six months of studying our bill taught me

Weiyuan
12 min readJul 13, 2022
Unnecessarily wastage in redundant content for AWS. Not anymore! — source: pixabay, author: Foto-Rabe

Hi there, I was the former Director of Engineering for a Singaporean startup, ZilLearn. And this was one of the most interesting engineering challenges that we faced in this last half-year, accumulating a ~50% in cost savings on our AWS bill.

To begin, it should go without saying that saving money is always a net positive.

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Weiyuan

Senior Engineering Manager, Ascenda Loyalty | Former Engineering Manager, Grab | Former Director of Engineering, ZilLearn | bit.ly/weiyuan