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The Elephant in the Corner: How Technical Debt Is Secretly Eating Your Cloud Budget

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Thinking DifferentlyThe Elephant in the Corner: How Technical Debt Is Secretly Eating Your Cloud BudgetEvery tech company has one - the architectural decision made 18 months ago that's now costing $15K monthly. Everyone knows it's there, nobody talks about it, and it keeps growing. Here's how to finally address your cloud cost elephant.Published April 3, 2025•by Alan CoxThe $15,000 Monthly ElephantIn CloudCorp's main conference room, there's an elephant in the corner that costs $15,000 every month.It started 18 months ago when the team needed to launch quickly. "We'll build it properly later," they said. They chose the simplest solution: individual RDS instances for each microservice instead of shared databases.Six microservices. Six databases. $2,500 monthly each.At first, it was barely noticeable. Six databases for six services? That seemed reasonable. But as the platform grew, the elephant grew with it.Now they have 47 microservices. Each with its own database. Each costing $320 mon...

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