How I cut my AWS bill by 90% by going serverless
In short, I was able to move my side project — an Express.JS application — from AWS Elastic Beanstalk to Lambda+APIG. It took me less than a day and it resulted in a ~90% reduction of costs. This could be beneficial for any non-mission critical application (or environment), and I believe that it could be a game-changer for side projects and small endeavors. First of all, for full disclosure — the application in question is a side project and not subject to any service-level agreement or performance requirements. It is a web site called libhive . libhive scans the code in the npm registry and finds examples of packages using other packages. It is built in Node.JS with ExpressJS, and backed by DynamoDB. libhive gets a modest 50–150 visits daily. A couple of months ago, after I decided not to pursue this project any longer, I still wanted to keep it alive — but to minimize the maintenance costs. The site was running on Elastic Beanstalk running 2 micro insta...