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Architecture AWS EC2 VR

Cutting Cloud Costs

(Decorist : 3/19-3/19)

Challenge

Given trends in 2018, AWS budget was projected to increase 92%.

Action

  • Worked with full-stack engineer on web team to tweak EC2 configs.
  • Iteratively introducing Reserved Instances to add to cost savings.
  • Worked with VR team to optimize the rendering pipeline.

As part of the VR work, we found that EC2 instances were running unneccessarily 24/7 so we adapted processes to more efficiently utilize those resources.

Results

  • Reduced AWS MoM spend by 40%.