14 articles tagged with "aws"
Unattached EBS volumes, idle load balancers, forgotten snapshots — your cloud bill has a graveyard problem. Here's how to find the zombies and put them down for good.
Every architecture diagram eventually grows a second region because someone said 'what if us-east-1 goes down.' Here's how to tell whether you need multi-region resilience or just a very expensive security blanket.
Every cloud instance carries a tiny, unauthenticated web server strapped to its side, handing out credentials to anyone who asks nicely. Here's why that's terrifying, and the one-line fix most teams still haven't shipped.
Your compute bill is flat, your storage bill is flat, and yet the total keeps climbing. Meet data egress — the cost line that hides in plain sight until it doesn't.
Public S3 buckets aren't the meme they used to be — AWS locked the front door years ago. So how are people still leaking data? Turns out the misconfigs just moved to policies, presigned URLs, and cross-account trust.
A practical, no-nonsense checklist for auditing your AWS bill line by line — orphaned EBS volumes, zombie load balancers, NAT gateway tax, and the other quiet ways cloud spend creeps up on you.
A misconfigured retry loop, a forgotten dev environment, or a runaway Lambda can turn into a five-figure surprise before anyone notices. Here's how to catch it in hours instead of at month-end, with real tools and thresholds that actually work.
AWS gives you two ways to pre-commit for a discount, and the console makes them look almost identical. They are not. Here's the difference that actually matters, and the mistake that costs teams real money.
The cloud bill isn't a finance problem that got outsourced to engineering. It's an engineering problem that finance is being blamed for. Here's how to think about cost like a system property, not a monthly surprise.
IAM policies control what identities can do — but SCPs control what's even possible. Here's why Service Control Policies are the most underused security tool in AWS Organizations, and how to actually use them.
Hardcoded AWS credentials in Docker containers and .env files are a breach waiting to happen. Workload identity gives your services cloud access without a single long-lived key in sight.
Your 8-core VM is running at 3% CPU. Your Kubernetes pods are OOMKilled every Tuesday. Right-sizing fixes both — but only if you stop guessing and start measuring what your workloads actually need.
KMS doesn't encrypt your data — it encrypts the key that encrypts your data. That's envelope encryption, and once it clicks, cloud secrets management makes total sense.
Server-Side Request Forgery sounds complicated, but the concept is delightfully evil: trick a server into making HTTP requests *it* shouldn't be making, then read what comes back. It took down Capital One. It lives in your URL-fetching code. Let's fix that.