Every RDS instance running on-demand is paying the highest rate AWS offers for that database. RDS reserved instance pricing cuts that rate by 29% on the lowest 1-year commitment to 69% on a 3-year All Upfront term, depending on the engine and instance type. For a db.r8g.xlarge PostgreSQL running Multi-AZ, ... Read More

Singapore is the cloud capital of Southeast Asia. AWS has invested over $12 billion in Singapore infrastructure between 2024 and 2028, Google Cloud committed $2 billion to Singapore in 2023, and Microsoft Azure runs one of its most strategically important APAC regions from Singapore. AWS ap-southeast-1 holds over 30% of ... Read More

You are good at shipping fast. That is the whole point of DevOps. But somewhere between “move fast” and “scale automatically, the cloud bill starts to move faster than the product. The irony is that DevOps teams are both the cause and the cure. The same CI/CD pipelines that make ... Read More

You already know cloud compute costs money. What you may not realize is how much you are overpaying simply by not committing to it in advance. Cloud providers charge a penalty for paying by the hour with no commitment — it is called the on-demand rate. A Compute Savings Plan ... Read More