/conv/ - Conversion Rate

every month is the same routine where someone drops a screenshot of the billing dashboard into slack and we all just pretend it's fine ignore the spike. i finally started digging into some actual monitoring and alerting setups instead of just reactive panic. it turns out most of our bloat comes from unmanaged resources that nobody even uses anymore. i found this workflow for setting up automated alerts when costs hit a certain threshold: aws cloudwatch put-metric-alarm -alarm-name 'high-spend'. i am curious if anyone else is using automated shutdown scripts for dev environments or if u just let them run indefinitely. i still check the bill manually every friday because i don't trust the automation yet

full read: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/aws-cloud-cost-monitoring-alerting-and-optimization-a-guide-for-devs/