Cloud Loops
It happened during a mission for a client. They had decided to move everything to AWS, hoping to scale faster and more easily than with their old bare-metal self-hosted infrastructure.
At first, everything looked perfect. Deployments were smoother, scaling was instant, and everyone was proud of how modern it all felt. The promise of “infinite scalability” seemed within reach.
But then, the invoices started growing. Each month, the costs climbed higher, and every time the cluster expanded, the bill followed.