Prevent infrastructure costs from becoming a significant line item on your startup’s budget! Serial entrepreneur and software architect Angelo Mandato will share his experience with AWS Activate (startup credits from AWS) and knowledge on how to architect a lean and mean AWS account ideal for budget minded and bootstrapped startups. In this session you will learn how to manage a production ready AWS account capable of scaling as your startup grows for less than $100/month before credits. We will discuss AWS Budgets, Cost Explorer, architect priorities, and the importance of having flexible, optimized Infrastructure as Code. We will wrap everything up discussing opportunities where to save with AWS services such as S3, EC2, Load Balancers, Lambda Functions, RDS, and many others.
AWS Services mentioned
Core: AWS Activate (startup credits), Budgets, Cost Explorer
Plus: CloudFormation, Lambda Functions, Serverless, Route 53, S3, Secrets Manager, Systems Manager, CloudFront, CloudWatch, EC2, RDS, DynamoDB, VPC, and more.
Resources
Angelo’s list of AWS services and potential for cost savings will be available soon.
Slides
Slides from the AWS Midwest Community Day Conference on June 5, 2025
Video
Video from the Indianapolis, Indiana AWS User Group Meetup scheduled on May 27, 2025.
Audio
Audio of this recording can be downloaded or played with the player below:
Survey for this session
Link to Survey (coming soon)