Finding and Fixing Excessive Cloud Costs with the New Metering API… and an AI Sherlock Holmes
ScyllaDB, Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026
ScyllaDB introduces a Metering API for ScyllaDB Cloud and shows how usage data and an AI assistant uncovered cost savings.
ScyllaDB has added a Metering API to ScyllaDB Cloud that returns compute, network and backup usage from cluster to node level for any time period, with the same data available in the console UI.
In one case, a customer running 100,000 operations per second across three AWS availability zones had unexpectedly high network usage of about 360 GB per hour.
Exported metering data fed to an AI assistant pointed to the driver sending requests across zones, incurring AWS cross-zone charges.
Switching the Python driver to a token-aware, rack-aware, local-first load-balancing policy saved about $42,000 a year.