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$20K/month is where your AWS bill changes the most. •$6K on RDS IOPS. •$4K on transit charges between AZs you forgot •$3K on NAT gateways passing idle traffic •$2K on S3 PUTs from the microservice the principal engineer wrote •$5K on CloudWatch logs

AWS networked storage, man--we used to be in a colo and plentiful cheap extremely fast local storage is 1000% what I miss most