Cloud Masters Episode #103
From high bills to high-fives: How Kry reduced its AWS costs by 70%
Learn about Kry’s cost-saving initiatives that helped them cut their AWS bill by 70%
Cloud Masters Episode #103

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Martin Borek
Cloud Masters
Cloud Masters
From high bills to high-fives: How Kry reduced its AWS costs by 70%
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Martin Borek
Cloud Masters
Cloud Masters
From high bills to high-fives: How Kry reduced its AWS costs by 70%
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Episode notes

Martin Borek, Technical Product Manager in the Platform Engineering team at Kry/Livi, Europe’s leading digital healthcare provider, joined us to share some of the AWS cost-saving initiatives he and his team deployed to reduce their AWS bill by 70%.

Key Moments

6:37 – 9:52: Reduce how much it costs to send metrics to Datadog with a push-based approach
11:07 – 13:19: Sending ECS Fargate logs directly to Datadog and how it reduces CloudWatch costs
15:10 – 21:53: Kry’s journey to becoming cost conscious in the cloud
24:34 – 27:02: Saving ~20% on RDS costs by migrating to ARM Graviton instances
28:13 – 31:44: Migrating ECS tasks to ARM architecture and why it’s trickier vs. migrating RDS
32:15 – 35:40: How Kry reduced compute and database costs by asking the right questions
36:24 – 37:40: Leveraging Trusted Advisor to reduce cloud costs and complexity
38:26 – 40:01: Reducing Elastic File System (EFS) costs by 90% with Intelligent Tiering

About the guests

Martin Borek
Martin Borek
Martin serves as a Technical Product Manager in the Platform Engineering team at Kry/Livi, Europe’s leading digital healthcare provider. He has been a part of the company’s journey through various stages, from building a robust foundation to supporting massive growth during the scale-up phase, and finally transitioning into profitability. Martin’s passion lies in building self-service internal developer platforms and platform teams that support tech organizations at scale. His primary goal is to reduce the cognitive load for engineers, allowing them to focus on innovation and problem-solving. His focus on DevSecFinOps is driven by a comprehensive technical background in Cloud Architecture, Networking, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, Software Development, Monitoring and Observability.
Martin Borek
Martin serves as a Technical Product Manager in the Platform Engineering team at Kry/Livi, Europe’s leading digital healthcare provider. He has been a part of the company’s journey through various stages, from building a robust foundation to supporting massive growth during the scale-up phase, and finally transitioning into profitability. Martin’s passion lies in building self-service internal developer platforms and platform teams that support tech organizations at scale. His primary goal is to reduce the cognitive load for engineers, allowing them to focus on innovation and problem-solving. His focus on DevSecFinOps is driven by a comprehensive technical background in Cloud Architecture, Networking, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, Software Development, Monitoring and Observability.

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