Ecommerce Growth & Retail Marketplaces
Ecommerce growth leader working across ratings and reviews, Walmart review syndication, retail marketplaces, and email and SMS deliverability. Writes the FactualMinds guides on AWS cost optimization and FinOps for teams that need cloud spend to stay predictable.
Checked 10 October 2026: managed Bedrock knowledge base storage is $5 per GB of raw data a month. One thousand GB is $5,000 before retrieval. An e-commerce workspace of terabytes of Drive files and millions of Gmail messages reached hundreds of dollars a day after ingestion started.
CloudZero, Vantage, Finout, nOps, ProsperOps, and Kubecost on AWS: a platform selection guide, plus who implements tagging, allocation, and architecture savings.
Production guide for Kubecost on AWS EKS: cost allocation setup, plus the architecture changes that reduce spend instead of just attributing it.
Implement ProsperOps on AWS. Savings Plans automation works best after baseline modeling and architecture stability. Production checklist included.
EC2 On-Demand is a matrix of family, size, OS, tenancy, and region. In us-east-1 (June 2026) a m7g.large Linux runs $0.0816/hr vs a g5.xlarge GPU at $1.006/hr. Graviton5 M9g/C9g now GA for new fleets.
ElastiCache bills node-hours for Redis/Valkey clusters and ECPUs for Serverless. A cache.r7g.large with two replicas is 3× the primary node cost before data transfer. Serverless wins below ~$800/mo steady cache spend; provisioned nodes win above it.
Fargate bills per vCPU-second and GB-second, not per task hour. In us-east-1 a 0.25 vCPU / 0.5 GB task runs ~$9/mo; a 4 vCPU / 16 GB task ~$170/mo. Prefer arm64 + C9g/C8g when moving steady-state to ECS on EC2.
A 22-account AWS Organization spent $1.1M/yr on Compute Savings Plans but applied only 61% to production. Dev sandboxes burned the commit while prod stayed On-Demand. Group Sharing (April 2026) fixed attribution. The waste was $312k/yr before they restructured purchases.
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