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The AI found waste in my cloud setup and saved me about $2,000 a month

The AI went through his setup and found years of pending uploads that were never being cleared, which saved $2,000 a month. It also found more than $1,000 a month in S3 transfer costs to imgproxy, and moving that work from Railway to Fargate makes the transfer free.

$2,000a month

How it works

  1. The AI checks his setup and finds years of pending uploads that were never cleared
  2. The AI finds more than $1,000 a month in S3 transfer charges to imgproxy
  3. Moving the work from Railway to Fargate makes that transfer free

Why it’s worth knowing

The waste was not a big mistake. It was years of uploads that were never cleared, plus transfer fees between his own tools, and the AI found both.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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