Tsvetan Ron Jason Federico

Agenda

• The Problem

• The Solution

• The Future

The Problem

• AWS temporary instances are started and forgotten

• AWS instances are started by an employee and then they leave the company

• Creates huge costs and makes us sell AVAX for costs.

Components

How bad is it?

• We identified 51 running instances across all regions
• Total cost accumulated so far: $78,691.76
• The top 5 most expensive instances account for over $43,201.44 combined — roughly 55% of the total spend
• Average cost per instance: $1,542.98
• Median cost per instance: $699.28

What we did

And the winner is...

Austin for his instance

(honorable mention: Darioush)

Slack!

Explain Output

Activity Metrics / 1

• How long was the instance around?

  • Root EBS AttachTime (survives stop/start).

Next Targets

• Dockerize the binary

• Hit all development targets

• Monitor all k8s deployments

• Full slack integration, identify slack user and notify them

• Regular "you spent XXXX" reports via slack

• Shaming reports "top AWS user this week was ..."

• Automatic scheduled shutoff via AWS API

Questions?