I published a post about AWS Reserved Instances today stripe.com/blog/aws-reserved-instances

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Optimizing for #cost and complexity, #docker and ECS/EKS are not worth it for my 1 node crud app

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Saved me $17 a month. My primary #AWS #cost is now my ALB. I'd replace it with an nginx if not for ACM making certs so easy

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Modified RDS to be single-AZ #HA

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Set desired backend ASG capacity to 1, but added autoscaling alarms to allow scaling up to 3 instances #HA

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Realized that hyperbola doesn't need to be super #HA

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Last week I tried to build hyperbola with #docker. I ended up with 5 containers to deploy a stage environment. github.com/hyperbola/hyperbola/pull/92

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