Technical estimates
AWS services
AWS service estimates:
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ECS - Fargate Service Name Instances CPU Memory Comlink 20 2 4gb Ender 1 4 8gb Roundtable 5 2 4gb Socks 20 4 16gb Vulcan 8 4 8gb 
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RDS - Postgres Database - Primary - db.m6g.16xlarge
- Replica - 1 db.m6g.16xlarge
 
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EC2 - Devboxes - t2.medium (1 instance per engineer)
 
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ElastiCache Redis - 1 primary and 1 replica with cache.r6g.large
 
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EC2 ELB - Loadbalancer - 250,000 LCU-Hrs/mo
 
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Cloudwatch - Logs - ~20,000 GB of logs ingested/mo
- ~100,000,000 Metrics requested using GetMetricData API/mo
 
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Secret Manager - ~100 secrets
- ~250,000 API requests
 
Other services
- Terraform Cloud — deploying to cloud
- ~4 engineers
 
- Bugsnag — bug awareness
- Standard plan
 
- Datadog — metrics and monitoring
- ~6000 custom metrics / hour
 
- PagerDuty — alerting
- ~4 engineers
 
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