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summary
Cloud spend basics and hard numbers: a $30/hr instance equals one engineer salary, 10% savings funds hires, and at ~$100k/month start now while at ~$1M/month you must hire a cost team. Practical wins include a hackathon that finds 15% in 3 days, awareness that S3 access fees bite, automation like a single-page Excel sheet cost estimator, linting/tagging to enforce ownership, and chasing many small fixes (eg $1,000/month per engineer) before risky long projects.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:44What do you do
- 1:00The Brass Tax
- 1:44What would a 10 reduction mean
- 2:31How Amazon makes their money
- 5:56How to bring Amazon to your company
- 11:00How to expand your data
- 17:47Cost blowout
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