Amazon EFS vs EBS vs S3: Choosing the Right AWS Storage
Three AWS storage services cover most production workloads, and the wrong choice is expensive. EBS costs $0.08/GB-month for gp3, EFS costs $0.30/GB-month...
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AWS DevOps Agent: Autonomous Incident Investigation on AWS
On March 31, 2026, AWS made the DevOps Agent generally available. The announcement tweet from @awscloud got 3.3 million views in a...
AWS Cost Explorer and Budgets: Controlling Cloud Spend
AWS bills monthly and surprises quarterly. A developer enables NAT Gateway logging in a test environment; nobody notices until the bill arrives...
AWS Compute Optimizer: Right-Sizing EC2, Lambda, and ECS Automatically
Most AWS accounts run EC2 instances that are the wrong size. Not dramatically wrong — nobody runs an m5.24xlarge for a blog...
AWS CodePipeline and CodeBuild: CI/CD Pipelines Without Leaving AWS
AWS CodePipeline and CodeBuild give you a CI/CD stack that stays entirely within AWS — no Jenkins to maintain, no GitHub Actions...
AWS CloudWatch Deep Dive: Metrics, Alarms, and Logs Insights
A tweet that reached 17,105 people last January listed the seven AWS services you need to know to get hired. CloudWatch was...
AWS CloudTrail Deep Dive: Audit Logging and Security Monitoring
Every API call made to AWS — from the console, CLI, SDK, or another service — generates a CloudTrail event. Who created...
AWS CDK Introduction: Infrastructure as Code with TypeScript
HashiCorp’s Business Source License change in August 2023 sent a lot of teams back to evaluating their IaC options. AWS CDK picked...
AWS Bedrock Agents for DevOps: AI That Actually Helps in 2026
I built three DevOps agents on Bedrock last quarter. One was genuinely useful, one was okay, and one I threw away. That...
AWS App Runner: Deploy Containerized Apps Without Managing Infrastructure
AWS App Runner launched in 2021 to fill a real gap: you have a containerized web app or API, you want it...
AWS App Mesh Is Dead on September 30, 2026 — Your ECS Service Connect Migration Guide
September 30, 2026. That’s when AWS App Mesh stops running.
Aurora Global Database: Sub-Second Cross-Region Replication for MySQL and PostgreSQL
Aurora Global Database replicates your MySQL or PostgreSQL data across up to five AWS regions with typical replication lag under one second....