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techMEDIUM2026-05-05 21:51 UTC

I cut my AWS bill by 93% by ditching Fargate for a single Lightsail VM

TL;DR I built ToolMango, an AI tools directory, on AWS Fargate. The bill came back at $345/mo before traffic. I migrated to a single $12 Lightsail VM in an afternoon and cut costs by 93% while keeping the same Next.js + Postgres + Redis + BullMQ stack alive. Here's exactly what I changed, what bro

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