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HERO WEEKLY — Issue #47 February 18, 2026
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AWS drops Graviton4 pricing by 18% — here's what to migrate first
Amazon quietly updated Graviton4 pricing across all regions. We ran the numbers: for most compute-heavy workloads, migrating now saves 22–31% vs x86. Here's our migration priority list.
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Google's new Gemini 2.0 Flash model: what it means for your AI pipeline costs
Flash 2.0 is 3× faster and 40% cheaper than its predecessor. We tested it on 5 common cloud-automation tasks and it passed all of them. The cost math for high-volume use cases is compelling.
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How one platform team cut their Kubernetes costs by 44% in 6 weeks
A detailed post-mortem from a 120-person fintech on their rightsizing journey: what they measured, what they changed, and the three tools they used. Reproducible, practical, with real numbers.
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How Figma Cut Their AWS Bill by 31% in 6 Weeks
A full breakdown of Figma's cloud cost optimization playbook — from the initial audit that found $1.2M in annual waste to the engineering changes that made it stick. Includes their rightsizing methodology, reserved instance strategy, and the one architectural change that saved $400K/year alone.

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