We're running aws cdk vs terraform - when to use what? in production and wanted to share our experience.
Scale:
- 969 services deployed
- 26 TB data processed/month
- 5M requests/day
- 10 regions worldwide
Architecture:
- Compute: EC2 Auto Scaling
- Data: DocumentDB
- Queue: EventBridge
Monthly cost: ~$145k
Lessons learned:
1. Multi-AZ costs add up fast
2. CloudWatch logs get expensive
3. Autoscaling needs careful tuning
AMA about our setup!
This is a game changer for teams doing CI/CD! We integrated it with our existing GitHub Actions + Jenkins and the results were immediate. Developer productivity up 40%, deployment frequency up 3x, and MTTR down 60%. Best investment we made this year.
Thanks for sharing! We're planning to try this next quarter.
We implemented this using the following approach:
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Results: significant improvement in deployment speed. Setup: AWS, EKS, 41 services.
Thanks for sharing! We're planning to try this next quarter.
Integration with existing tools was tricky for us.
Security team blocked this due to compliance requirements.
We benchmarked 5 solutions:
1. Option A: fast but expensive
2. Option B: cheap but limited
3. Option C: goldilocks zone ✓
Ended up with C, saved 40% vs A.