Category: Cloud Cost Optimization

Flo is the largest app in the Health and Fitness category worldwide, with 70 million monthly active users. In this post, we explain best practices Flo implemented to scale to more than 70 million monthly active users while achieving 60% cost efficiency with Amazon DynamoDB.

In this post, we demonstrate an architecture pattern in which we migrate BLOB column data from Amazon RDS for Oracle tables to Amazon S3. This solution allows you to choose the specific columns and rows containing BLOB data that you want to migrate to Amazon S3. It uses Amazon S3 integration, which enables you to copy data between an RDS for Oracle instance and Amazon S3 using SQL.

A primary reason companies move their workloads to AWS is because of cost. With AWS, cloud migration and application modernization plans are based on your business needs and not agreements or licensing. You can acquire technology on an as-needed basis, only paying for the resources you use. You can build modern, scalable applications on AWS […]