Database CostMay 28, 20267 minThe Dashboard Tax: How 10 Queries Quietly Bankrupt Your Aurora Bill
Your BI dashboards are a hidden tax on your database. A few slow, recurring queries can generate millions of needless IOs, quietly inflating your Aurora bill by tens of thousands per month. Here’s the math, and how to stop it.
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Database CostMay 27, 20268 minMaterialized Views on Aurora Postgres: Your Most Expensive, Unaudited Line Item
Teams use Materialized Views to fix slow dashboards, then get blindsided by the six-figure Aurora I/O bill. A single `REFRESH` running on a cron job is likely costing you more than your lead engineer's salary.
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Query OptimizationMay 27, 20269 minCreating indexes is easy. Dropping them is what saves your Aurora bill.
Every Postgres team I meet has an index problem. It's almost never "we need more indexes." It's "we're paying for 40+ indexes nobody reads, and they're killing writes, vacuum, and the monthly bill."
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Database CostMay 26, 20267 minWhy your Aurora Postgres bill doubled in 6 months — and it isn't traffic
Aurora bills don't double because of traffic. They double because of I/O patterns nobody is watching. Here's the autopsy, with the fixes a senior DBA would actually ship.
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