TCP #57: The Hidden Cost Center That Was Eating 32% of Our AWS Budget

Taming your CloudWatch Logs bill

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Last month, our quarterly cloud cost review revealed a shocking discovery: CloudWatch Logs silently consumed nearly one-third of our AWS spend.

What started as a routine audit became a full-scale optimization initiative that transformed our cloud economics. After implementing a systematic optimization strategy, we slashed those costs by 87%, saving $13,856 monthly.

Most organizations overlook logging as a cost center, focusing instead on compute and storage.

But in modern serverless architectures, logs can quickly become the most expensive part of your infrastructure. The volume of logs generated by Lambda functions, containers, and microservices grows exponentially with scale, as do the costs.

In today’s newsletter, I’ll walk through our complete optimization playbook so you can implement these same strategies in your organization. My approach maintains full observability while dramatically reducing unnecessary expenditure.

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