Diego Saavedra

Diego spent five years at CloudHealth (then VMware Tanzu) as a solutions engineer working with mid-market AWS customers, mostly in the $200k-$2M/month spend range. He left in 2024 to consult independently and has since helped seven companies - a Series C fintech, a media streaming startup, and assorted SaaS shops - restructure their RI and Savings Plan portfolios. His best-documented win was a $310k/month reduction at a video-processing company by moving Lambda-heavy workloads to Fargate Spot. He's AWS Solutions Architect Professional, AWS DevOps Engineer Professional, and FinOps Practitioner certified. Before CloudHealth he was a DevOps engineer at MercadoLibre in Buenos Aires for three years. Diego writes about Lambda cost patterns, NAT Gateway and data-transfer charges (the silent killers), and how to negotiate an Enterprise Discount Program renewal without getting steamrolled. Based in Buenos Aires, eight years in.