How I Slashed AI API Costs 60% as a Cloud Architect
I still remember the Slack message that started it all. Our CFO had pulled up a dashboard, and our monthly LLM bill had quietly crept past what we were paying for our entire Kubernetes cluster. Multiply that across three regions, add a comfortable redundancy multiplier, and you start having uncomfortable conversations with finance.
If you're running AI workloads at scale and sweating your monthly invoice, here's what I've learned.
The Multi-Region Math Problem Nobody Talks About
When you're shipping a product that serves users across North America, Europe, and APAC, you don't get to think about a single API call. You think about three: one near each user population, ideally routed through anycast or geo-DNS, with health checks firing every 15 seconds. You think about the cold path. You think about what happens when your primary provider has a bad Tuesday.
