🇿🇦 English, 8 October 2026, cloud costs
Companies Risk High Cloud Bills by Treating AWS Like Another Data Centre
Many businesses are unaware that a like-for-like infrastructure approach can lead to high cloud costs.
A company that migrated a major application to AWS risked accruing an annual bill of $4.5 million, but a different approach slashed the bill down to $300,000.
The key to cloud savings is focusing on an application’s end state and business relevance, not just replicating the original server’s hardware specifications.
Companies should adopt a different approach, such as moving to an event-driven architecture that focuses on serverless technologies, to minimize idle costs.