🧗 "You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again." - Bonnie Prudden
Hello folks!
Now that the US elections are over, we can all log out of Twitter for a few weeks and take a fresh breath of air.
I hope your week was good. I spent my time reading, some coding and a bit of writing. I also finished my article on AWS data transfer cost optimisation for my cost optimisation handbook. Do check here.
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This week, I wrote an article which talks about a thought process you can adopt while buying software for your organisation. This is what I have learned over years of making mistakes and learning from my org. This is a bit off-topic from my usual AWS rant.
Highlights of the Article
👉 Nature of Data: It’s not easy to migrate to a new accounting software or a cloud provider. However, you can relatively easily change your source code hosting service or your product analytics service.
👉 Free Vs Paid: Free isn’t always cheap. Paid isn’t always what you really need.
👉 One Vs Many: Most softwares do one task exceptionally well, but also do a few more things satisfactorily. Use all features from the software you have already purchased instead of buying more software.
👉 Avoid lock-ins: They are designed to make it hard for you to switch. Don’t trade away your flexibility for a few hundred bucks.
👉 Perks of small team: You don’t yet need to worry about hundreds of things that a large company needs to. For example - a 99.99% uptime or compliance. Take advantage of all this while you still can.
Read the full article here and hit reply to share what you think.
Around the web on AWS cost optimisation
Official AWS
Cloudfront no longer charges for requests blocked by AWS WAF
Amazon DataZone waives off subscription fee per configured user and couple of other cost reductions
New Kinesis client library can reduce the stream processing compute costs by upto 33%
That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Keep reading and learning.
Shubham