All posts tagged with aws
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FinOps is broken not because the data doesn't exist, but because it lives in Cost Explorer and nobody opens it. We built an AI agent you chat with in plain English — ask what your NAT Gateway costs, which EC2 instances are oversized, or where last month's anomaly came from.
A fast-growing DeFi startup brought us in to harden their stack before a Series A. We found the typical patterns of a team that prioritized shipping over security — exposed credentials in CI, permissive network rules, and a few blockchain-specific gaps. Here's every finding and every fix.
In high-traffic news environments, traffic arrives in seconds and Cluster Autoscaler reacts in minutes. The only way out is to pre-scale before the spike — using the editorial CMS as your signal. Here's the full pattern: CMS webhooks, KEDA, and Karpenter.
We replaced Cluster Autoscaler with Karpenter, moved 80% of workloads to Spot, and implemented scale-to-zero for non-critical services. Monthly bill went from $47K to $14K.
A healthcare SaaS was spending $38K/month on AWS with no idea where the money went. We audited everything, implemented 12 changes, and brought it down to $18K. Here's the full breakdown.