How One Engineering Team Cut Cloud Costs by 40 Percent Without Hurting Performance

Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations · Jun 2, 2026 · 8m · transcript

In this episode of Tech Leadership with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna dive into a real-world case study of how a mid-sized SaaS team reduced their AWS bill by 40% over six months — without sacrificing latency or developer velocity. They unpack the specific tactics that worked: from right-sizing instances and committing to reserved capacity, to implementing a 'cost per feature' tracking process that made engineers think twice before provisioning resources. Lucas explains why most cost-cutting advice fails because it treats cloud spend as a finance problem instead of an engineering culture problem…