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AWS Cost Optimization Guide — Practical Steps to Cut Your Bill

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, no AWS account is 100% optimized. Here’s a step-by-step approach to fix it.

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Out Of Memory Issues on ECS Fargate Containers — Root Cause and Fix

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?

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Introducing the AWS Free Tier Stack — Budget Alerts and Security Checks for New AWS Users

May 06, 2024

Many people taking the dive into AWS have a bad first experience — an unexpected bill that’s much higher than expected. The AWS Free Tier Stack helps new users with early warnings and security basics.

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Cloud Security Audit in 5 Minutes with 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. Let’s make security quick and easy with Prowler 3.

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RDS Aurora Serverless v2 Migration Guide — Step by Step

April 23, 2022

AWS has finally released RDS Aurora Serverless v2. It’s available for both MySQL 8 and Postgres 13 and will be a game changer for organizations with spiky database loads. Here’s how to migrate.

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Deploying CDK to AWS Using Bitbucket Pipelines and OIDC — No Access Keys

March 13, 2022

A step-by-step guide to deploying CDK apps via Bitbucket Pipelines using OIDC — eliminating the need for long-lived IAM access keys.

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