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Dec 30, 2025 · Operations

How Switching from Kubernetes to AWS ECS Saved $10K+ Monthly and Slashed Deployments to Seconds

After abandoning Kubernetes and its complex CI pipelines, the team migrated to Amazon ECS, achieving a 70% reduction in pipeline complexity, cutting monthly cloud spend by over $10,000, accelerating deployments from minutes to seconds, and eliminating the need for two DevOps engineers, while highlighting when ECS may not be suitable.