This might have to do with the arctictuer of running micro services , are there reduncies , etc

what are we talking about

it might really be a rant , but my hunch is this is causing the AWS bill to sky rocket

why aren't running micro services, we are event driven, no long running services.

Exactly, you might be having too many events that are unexpected and not anticipated. One thing I've seen in the wild is bots ( do you have something sitting in front of the API gateway to block certain IPs) trying to get or check your paths, etc, even though they don't get in, they will cost you

i see the number of invocations clearly, that isn't the current issue.

I'm just thinking out loud with out seeing logs etc

costs (1).csv

can you send whe the cost was low to compare

Well the cost went up bc we deployed to prod, so we double cost by running the app in two spots both in alpha and prod. i'm not convinced its a change we made, just slowly increasing over time as we scale out and roll out, but i am wondering if we can find a place to cut costs easily

more users--> more events--> cost ?

Sure