On: WebSockets cost us $1M on our AWS bill

[jgauth]

Did you read the article? It is about the CPU cost of using WebSockets to transfer data over loopback.

[kunwon1 → jgauth]

I read the entire article and that wasn't my takeaway. After reading, I assumed that AWS was (somehow) billing for loopback bandwidth, it wasn't apparent (to me) from the article that CPU costs were the sticking point

[DrammBA → kunwon1]

> We set a goal for ourselves to cut this CPU requirement in half, and thereby cut our cloud compute bill in half.

From the article intro before they dive into what exactly is using the CPU.