Great post. It's good to see an enterprise smaller than Segment [0] talk about how complex AWS pricing is.
You mention you use SQS to queue incoming metrics. What server/framework/language are you using to do this? IME using SQS requires tools with good parallelism to deal with it's high-latency/high-throughput performance characteristics.
You mention you use SQS to queue incoming metrics. What server/framework/language are you using to do this? IME using SQS requires tools with good parallelism to deal with it's high-latency/high-throughput performance characteristics.
[0] https://segment.com/blog/spotting-a-million-dollars-in-your-...