ESCMU 8-12-25: Cloud Cost Optimization at Scale: Duolingo’s FinOps Story | AWS Events

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Presenters: Brent Everman (Senior TAM, AWS) Jean-Paul Bonny (Senior Software Engineer, Duolingo) Event: AWS SWIM Enterprise Support Customer Meetup - August 12, 2025 https://go.aws/4pvXtxy Theme: Cost Optimization As one of the world's most popular language learning platforms serving over 500 million users, Duolingo faced the challenge of managing exponential cloud infrastructure growth while maintaining cost efficiency. This presentation reveals how Duolingo transformed their cloud economics through a comprehensive FinOps strategy, including specific case studies where they worked with AWS Enterprise Support to introduce platform architecture optimizations for significant cost savings. Learn more about AWS events: https://go.aws/events Subscribe: More AWS videos: http://bit.ly/2O3zS75 More AWS events videos: http://bit.ly/316g9t4 ABOUT AWS Amazon Web Services (AWS) hosts events, both online and in-person, bringing the cloud computing community together to connect, collaborate, and learn from AWS experts. AWS is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—are using AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster. #AWSEvents