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Concurrency Labs
Company blog · concurrencylabs.com/blogsystemsprogramming
Concurrency Labs is the company blog at concurrencylabs.com, writing about systems and programming. Since 2016, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Save yourself a lot of pain (and money) by choosing your AWS Region wisely”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link this AWS consultancy's blog for practical cost advice, including caching and CDN setups to cut WordPress hosting bills and guidance on choosing cheaper AWS regions.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
We help you launch and grow your applications on AWS.
Most-linked posts?
- Save yourself a lot of pain (and money) by choosing your AWS Region wisely4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-12-16
What Hacker News says?
The main reason people choose AWS is orchestration ability and scaling, the cost is usually hidden in "free" tiers until you start to scale and it becomes visible. Bandwidth being one of the largest issues... The second is cost complexity.. AWS pricing is also so complex that Amazon provides cost calculators to get an estimate, however, since most services intertwine, it's so easy to miss obvious cost points that bu…
Comment linking /blog/aws-quicksight-cost-optimization/
on “20 months, 2K hours, 200K € lost. A story about resilience and sunk cost fallacy”Submitted Redshift vs. Starburst Presto-8.66B Record Query Performance Comparison as a story · 10 points
HN discussion$200+ a month?! What's your setup? You can easily do less than $10 per month if you cache and CDN properly: https://www.concurrencylabs.com/blog/handle-thousands-of-use...
Comment linking /blog/handle-thousands-of-users-with-a-t2-nano/
on “WordPress 18”Submitted Save yourself a lot of pain (and money) by choosing your AWS Region wisely as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere's a small increase in cost compared to the cheapest US regions, but the European regions are still significantly cheaper than the expensive Australia/Brazil regions. https://www.concurrencylabs.com/blog/choose-your-aws-region-...
Comment linking /blog/choose-your-aws-region-wisely/
on “InfluxDB Cloud shuts down in Belgium; some weren't notified before data deletion”Submitted Choosing Your AWS Region Wisely as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Save yourself a lot of pain (and money) by choosing your AWS Region wisely as a story · 1 points
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