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For a .NET monolith (~220 endpoints, ~$28k/mo EC2), strangling 14 endpoints to Lambda cut p95 on those routes from 1.4s to 210ms. An early LMI move on spiky traffic wasted ~$3.2k in idle capacity provider hours.
Palaniappan PFor a multi-district LMS (~52k concurrent exam submissions in 30 min), SQS decouple + Aurora Serverless v2 held p95 submit at 410 ms, and off-peak monthly compute dropped 71% vs always-on EC2.
Palaniappan PFor a card-acquiring fintech (~12M authorizations/mo), Payment Cryptography + PCI-scoped account cut a modeled $18k/mo from the HSM rack lease, and fraud review queue p95 went from 2.4s to 380ms after an EventBridge Pipes idempotency fix.
Palaniappan PFor an enterprise lake (~38 TB Iceberg, 8.4k small files), S3 Tables managed compaction cut Athena scan spend 35%, and compaction OPEX is 90% lower than under pre-July 2025 pricing on the same workload.
Palaniappan PFor a multi-clinic digital health platform (~2.4M FHIR resources, 180 TB imaging), HealthLake + HealthImaging cut CCDA-to-FHIR onboarding from 14 weeks to 9 days, with query latency p95 down from 820 ms to 190 ms on clinical dashboards.
Palaniappan PFor a regional PropTech platform (~420k listings, 38 MLS connectors), DynamoDB canonical store + OpenSearch geo cut p95 search latency from 340 ms to 48 ms, and image CDN cost dropped 62% with Intelligent-Tiering.
Palaniappan PQ2 2026 ranked: AgentCore Harness GA (Jun 17), FinOps Agent preview (Jun 9), Graviton5 GA (Jun 10), OpenAI on Bedrock (Apr 28). Adoption matrix + verified TCO signals for CTOs.
Palaniappan PFor a fintech SaaS (6 prod databases, ~$14k/mo RDS line), scoping in-house DBA for schema + MSP for 24/7 paging cut on-call from 22 to 9 hrs/mo. Aurora Serverless v2 min ACU tuning handled tier-2 first.
Palaniappan PFor discrete manufacturing (~850 OPC-UA tags, 12 lines), Greengrass + IoT SiteWise anomaly detection moved OEE from 61% to 74% in 90 days, with unplanned downtime down 18% and no MES replacement.
Palaniappan PFor a mid-market software estate (~280 VMs, $340k/yr Broadcom renewal), splitting 60% MGN rehost + 25% EVS relocate + 15% replatform cut parallel-run from 22 to 16 weeks, without forcing one hypervisor strategy.
Palaniappan POn a B2B SaaS crossing Series A (~$18.5k/mo AWS), running the funding-stage gate checklist before the B round cut diligence prep from 11 weeks to 4. The work was an Organizations split, WAF, and a SOC2 evidence path, with no re-platforming.
Palaniappan PBefore a partner-led WA Review, a fintech workload with 23 open HRIs spent 6 weeks on unfocused fixes; after the readiness checklist and HRI cap of 5 for 90 days, the next milestone dropped High Risk items from 23 to 7 in one review cycle.
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