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How FabFitFun Saves $1 Million a Year on AWS Costs

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Usage.AI Team ∙ March 19 ∙ 3 min

DynamoDB vs Aurora: When to Choose NoSQL vs Relational on AWS
  • AWS, Dynamodb
DynamoDB vs Aurora: When to Choose NoSQL vs Relational on AWS
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  • AWS, RDS
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DynamoDB TTL: Free Automatic Item Deletion to Reduce Storage Cost
  • AWS, Dynamodb
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  • AWS, Effective savings Rate
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Effective Savings Rate (ESR): The Complete FinOps Guide to Calculating and Improving Your Cloud Savings ROI
  • AWS, Effective savings Rate
Effective Savings Rate (ESR): The Complete FinOps Guide to Calculating and Improving Your Cloud Savings ROI
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RDS Extended Support Pricing: Staying on Old Engine Versions
  • AWS, RDS
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RDS Encryption: Does Encrypting Your Database Add Cost?
  • AWS, RDS
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  • AWS, Dynamodb
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  • AWS, RDS
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  • AWS, RDS
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RDS Blue/Green Deployments: Zero-Downtime Upgrades and Cost Impact
  • AWS, RDS
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  • EC2, Savings Plans
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RDS Backup Cost: Snapshot Retention Pricing Guide
  • AWS, Backup Cost
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  • AWS, Reserved Instances
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  • Azure, New-Releases
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  • GCP, New-Releases
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  • Cloud Cost Optimization, GCP
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  • Cloud Cost Optimization, Finops
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  • Cloud Cost Optimization, Finops
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  • Cloud Cost Optimization, Finops
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  • Cloud Cost Optimization, Finops
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  • Cloud Cost Optimization, Finops
Cloud Cost Optimization Best Practices: 18 Proven Ways to Cut 30–50% of Your Cloud Bill in 2026
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  • Cloud Cost Optimization, GCP
GCP Cost Optimization Best Practices & Why They Don’t Scale
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  • Cloud Cost Optimization, Finops
Why Cloud Cost Management Keeps Failing (and What Teams Are Missing)
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  • Cloud Cost Optimization, Finops
The FinOps Build vs Buy Dilemma: A Practical Guide to Cloud Cost Optimization Decisions
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  • Cloud Cost Optimization, Finops
Cloud Cost Optimization: How to Cut Cloud Spend Without Taking Commitment Risk
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  • Cloud Cost Optimization, Finops
Cloud Cost Analysis: How to Measure, Reduce, and Optimize Spend
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  • Cloud Cost Optimization, Guides
7 AWS Savings Plan KPIs Every FinOps Team Should Track for Better Cost Efficiency
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  • Cloud Cost Optimization, Finops
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  • Cloud Cost Optimization, Finops
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  • Cloud Cost Optimization, Finops
Multi-Cloud Cost Optimization Guide | AWS, Azure, GCP Savings
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  • Cloud Cost Optimization, Compare
How to Choose Between 1-Year and 3-Year AWS Commitments
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  • Cloud Cost Optimization, Cloud Provider Updates, Guides
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  • AI ML Cost, AWS, Cloud Cost Optimization, Cloud Provider Updates
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  • Cloud Cost Optimization, GCP
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  • AI ML Cost, AWS, Cloud Cost Optimization
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  • Cloud Cost Optimization, Guides
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  • AWS, Dynamodb
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  • AWS, Reserved Instances
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  • AWS, Guides
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  • AWS, RDS
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  • AWS, Dynamodb
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  • AWS, Effective savings Rate
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  • AWS, Effective savings Rate
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  • AWS, RDS
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  • AWS, RDS
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  • AWS, Dynamodb
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  • AWS, RDS
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  • AWS, RDS
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  • AWS, RDS
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  • EC2, Savings Plans
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  • AWS, Backup Cost
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  • AWS, Reserved Instances
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  • AWS, New-Releases
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  • AWS, Reserved Instances
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  • AWS, EC2
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  • AWS, Reserved Instances
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  • AWS, Dynamodb
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  • Cloud Cost Optimization, GCP
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  • GCP, New-Releases
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  • GCP
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  • GCP, New-Releases
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  • GCP
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  • GCP
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  • Cloud Cost Optimization, GCP
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  • Cloud Cost Optimization, GCP
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  • AWS, Cloud Cost Optimization, Cloud Provider Updates, GCP
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  • Cloud Cost Optimization, Cloud Provider Updates, Guides
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  • Cloud Cost Optimization, Usage AI
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  • Azure, New-Releases
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  • Azure, Savings Plans
Azure Database Savings Plans: Pricing, Coverage & Trade-offs
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  • Cloud Cost Optimization, Cloud Provider Updates, Guides
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  • Cloud Cost Optimization, Guides
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  • Cloud Cost Optimization, Cloud Provider Updates, Guides
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  • Guides
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  • Cloud Cost Optimization, Usage AI
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  • Success Stories, Usage AI
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  • Case Studies, Success Stories
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  • Case Studies, Success Stories
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  • AWS, Cloud Cost Optimization, Cloud Provider Updates, GCP
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  • AWS, Cloud Cost Optimization, Cloud Provider Updates, Guides
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  • Azure, New-Releases
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  • Guides, New-Releases
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  • Finops, New-Releases
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