A quiet departmental intranet launches on oversized EC2 and RDS classes “just in case.” Which cost practice should architects bake into the new-solution design?
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Short Explanation
Big boxes for a sleepy intranet are like heating an empty stadium—measure early, then rightsize. Buying max RIs blind or flying without metrics just burns budget.
Full Explanation
Rightsizing is a design-time and early-operations discipline: collect utilization metrics promptly and adjust instance/database classes to demand. Premature large Reserved Instance commitments, disabled monitoring, and metric-free vertical churn all prevent cost-efficient infrastructure selection for low-traffic municipal apps.