Optimize Cloud Development Costs with Coder | Part 2/3

Sam Gabrail
10 min readJun 28, 2024

This article was originally published on the TeKanAid Blog.

As we adopt cloud more and more, cost management and optimization is key to being competitive and profitable. This post will show you how to cut your cloud development costs with Coder, a cloud dev platform. This is part 2 of 3 in our exploration of Cloud Development Platforms with Coder.

We will first talk about cloud costs along with some general strategies to optimize them. Then we’ll cover Coder’s auto-stop, auto-start, dormancy and failure cleanup features and a success story from Skydio who cut their cloud costs by 90% with Coder. Let’s get started!

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  • 0:00 Introduction
  • 00:28 Resource Optimization with Coder
  • 00:52 Exploring Coder’s Cost-Reducing Features
  • 03:01 Success Story: How Skydio Reduced Costs with Coder
  • 04:40 Demo Steps
  • 05:42 Demo Setup

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Sam Gabrail

DevOps and Infrastructure Automation Advocate | Content Creator