Why We Moved a Client Off Lambda: A Cold-Start Case Study (2% → 0.01% Error Rate)
TL;DR — A client’s core Lambda function was cold-starting under uneven traffic, and those cold starts were failing outright rather than just running slow — a 2% error rate that propagated into 5 downstream services. Moving the function off Lambda onto an always-on EC2 instance eliminated the cold start entirely and cut the error rate […]
Are Your AWS Lambda Functions Leaking Money? The Hidden Cost of CloudWatch REPORT Logs
TL;DR — Every AWS Lambda invocation emits a REPORT line to CloudWatch Logs. These ~200-byte lines look free, but at scale they routinely account for 20–60% of a serverless platform’s CloudWatch Logs bill — sometimes more than the Lambda compute itself. The fix is not “log less” in your code. It is tuning system-level logging, […]
Cloud Consulting Berlin: DevOps Services for AWS, Azure, and GCP
Cloud & DevOps Consulting in Berlin We are a Berlin-based engineering consultancy helping companies build faster, cheaper, and more resilient cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. What We Do Cloud Infrastructure Design Architecture review and design for AWS, Azure, and GCP — built for your workload, not a generic template. We design multi-account […]
