How I Slashed AI API Costs 60% as a Cloud Architect (opens in new tab)

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. That was six months ago. Since then, I've rebuilt our inference layer from the ground up, swapped out a chunk o...