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War Story: We Ditched Heroku for AWS EKS 1.32 and Saved 50% on Hosting

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War Story: We Ditched Heroku for AWS EKS 1.32 and Saved 50% on Hosting

In Q3 2024, our 12-person engineering team at a Series B fintech startup ripped our production...

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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 3900225) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } ANKUSH CHOUDHARY JOHAL Posted on Apr 30 • Originally published at johal.in War Story: We Ditched Heroku for AWS EKS 1.32 and Saved 50% on Hosting #story #ditched #heroku #saved In Q3 2024, our 12-person engineering team at a Series B fintech startup ripped our production workload off Heroku, migrated to AWS EKS 1.32, and cut monthly hosting spend from $42,000 to $21,000 – a 50% reduction – while dropping p99 API latency from 2.1s to 480ms and eliminating a 14-month backlog of vendor…

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