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 […]
Comparing the Cost of Internal Observability Platforms vs. Commercial Solutions
Comparing the Cost of Internal Observability Platforms vs. Commercial Solutions Recently, our internal team was tasked with calculating the cost of the observability platform we’ve built and maintained in-house, tailored for a specific use case within our enterprise. The results were eye-opening, especially when compared to leading commercial solutions like Grafana Labs’ Cloud offering, Splunk, […]
How We Reduced a Client’s Cloud Bill by 98.6% Overnight: A FinOps Case Study
TL;DR — A client was spending $701/month on a full Kubernetes-based Discourse stack — for a forum with discussions disabled. By asking “do we even need a forum engine?”, we migrated the content to a static site on S3 + CloudFront and cut the bill to ~$10/month: a 98.6% reduction overnight. The biggest FinOps wins […]
