Valuable Lessons from My First AWS Setup Mistakes (and How to Optimize Costs to Avoid Bill Shock!)
When I first set up services on AWS, I learned a lot—or more accurately, I made a lot of mistakes that turned into valuable lessons. And I mean really valuable because the first one to notify me wasn’t the engineering team, nor was it a monitoring alert, but... AWS billing! If that’s not valuable, I don’t know what is—after all, it’s your cost suddenly spiking that tells you something went wrong.
When I first set up services on AWS, I learned a lot—or more accurately, I made a lot of mistakes that turned into valuable lessons. And I mean really valuable because the first one to notify me wasn’t the engineering team, nor was it a monitoring alert, but... AWS billing! If that’s not valuable, I don’t know what is—after all, it’s your cost suddenly spiking that tells you something went wrong.
