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AWS Cost Optimization for everybody
November 20, 2024
Are you bleeding money on your AWS bill? You’re not alone. Between a complex billing system and a sea of options and opinions about cloud infrastructure, no AWS account is 100% optimized and cost effective. As with many complex problems, I like to br…
Out Of Memory issues on ECS Fargate containers
June 03, 2024
OutOfMemoryError: Container killed due to memory usage. This is the reason your tasks are restarting or failing altogether. The metrics published by ECS don’t show that much memory usage, so what’s going on?
Introducing: the AWS Free Tier Stack
May 06, 2024
I love working with AWS. However, many people that take the dive into the box of Lego that is AWS, have a bad first experience; an unexpected bill that’s (much) higher than you expected is a good reason to stop the adventure prematurely. One issue is…
Cloud security audit in 5 minutes, a quick look at Prowler 3
February 01, 2023
Security is job zero. At least, that’s what we say. In reality, business value comes first most of the time and security only becomes a job once either an audit must be performed, or perhaps when it’s already too late. So, let’s make security quick a…
RDS Aurora Serverless v2 is finally here, let’s migrate!
April 23, 2022
After being in preview for what felt like an eternity, AWS has finally released RDS Aurora Serverless v2 on April 21, 2022. RDS Aurora Serverless v2 is available for both Mysql 8 and Postgres 13 and will be a game changer for many organizations that…
Deploying (CDK) to AWS using Bitbucket Pipelines and OIDC
March 13, 2022
The other day I was browsing Reddit and a user asked for help regarding deploying CDK with Bitbucket Pipelines, using OIDC. I assumed that this was straight forward and helped the user by pointing him to some articles. A few days later, the same use …