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Pinecone vs OpenSearch Serverless vs Aurora pgvector vs Neptune Analytics — which to pick for your RAG workload, with concrete latency and cost numbers.
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Everything you need to know about reducing your AWS bill by 20-40% — from quick wins to architectural changes.
Datadog was costing us $40K/month at 1TB/day. We were growing to 6TB. Instead of scaling the bill, we built our own platform for $1,500.
DeFi / Crypto - AWS sneezed. Crypto caught pneumonia. Coinbase crashed, MetaMask disconnected, L2s went dark. Blockchains kept running - access didn't. 37% of Ethereum on Amazon's servers. Decentralization is a meme. Two outages, six months. We rent sovereignty.
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