How we got our AWS bill to around 2% of revenue

Re:How we got our AWS bill to around 2% of revenue by gnaman on Sunday June 28, 2020 @11:47AM (#23669550)

Have you come across any cheap elasticache alternatives? I'm on AWS free tier and AWS gives you a free 2 vCPU 0.5gb(or 1 vCPU and slightly more memory) instance which suits me for now. But I was wondering if there are any other managed redis alternatives? We are just 2 people and we want to keep our stack open to be able to switch providers and I don't know how easy it'd be to switch db instances.

I have explored redislabs but all in all it seems much more expensive than elasticache. A similar instance from redislabs costs ~$36 vs ~$13 in AWS. My comparison was based solely on capacity

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Re:How we got our AWS bill to around 2% of revenue by ramraj07 on Sunday June 28, 2020 @06:42PM (#23672646)

Perhaps you could consider hosting redis on lightsail? It might be the cheapest memory option within AWS (so traffic is free and fast). But it sounds like you're trying to use it as a database? I'll still go with managed MySQL/postgres - you can use the database's backup and restore abilities top switch providers fairly seamlessly- I have done it from gcp to AWS. Which is why I suck it up to RDS.

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Re:How we got our AWS bill to around 2% of revenue by gnaman on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @12:15PM (#23703136)

I only need ephemeral storage. I really like the pub sub functionality (which is the my most urgent need) of redis and the key value pair store suits me for now.

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