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A FinOps teardown of my own AWS bill

My side projects' AWS bill jumped this month. Here's how I traced every dollar, what was actually a problem, and the Graviton migration that turned out to be more than an instance-type change.

  • FinOps
  • AWS
  • Graviton
  • Cost optimization

How I ship eight products on nights and weekends

The boring, repeatable stack and habits that let one person run eight live products for a few dollars a month each: static-first, serverless where it counts, and audits that run before every deploy.

  • Architecture
  • AWS
  • Next.js
  • Indie building