Cutting AWS Maintenance Costs with Systems Manager: Your Business’s Secret Weapon

Cutting AWS Maintenance Costs with Systems Manager: Your Business’s Secret Weapon

Managing AWS infrastructure can be expensive, stressful, and let’s be real—time-consuming. Keeping everything patched, monitoring instances, and ensuring compliance is enough to keep any sysadmin up at night. But, AWS Systems Manager (SSM) can help you slash costs, streamline operations, and improve security all at once. In fact, when you

Why You Should Ditch Redshift for Athena When Querying Cold Data on S3

Why You Should Ditch Redshift for Athena When Querying Cold Data on S3

Cold data…you know, that old batch of records or files chilling in your Amazon S3 bucket like that pair of jeans you swore you’d fit back into. It’s there, it’s valuable, but you don’t touch it very often. Now and then, though, you have to pull something out from that

Granular IAM Roles for Spend Control: Preventing Cloud Overspend with Fine-Grained Policies

Granular IAM Roles for Spend Control: Preventing Cloud Overspend with Fine-Grained Policies

Cloud environments offer immense flexibility, but that also opens the door to unexpected costs if users accidentally launch expensive services or instances. Controlling spend is critical—especially when managing sandbox environments, development teams, or even interns getting their hands dirty with cloud resources. One of the most effective ways to keep

Cross-Account S3 Access for Shared Data: Save Storage Costs by Avoiding Replication

Cross-Account S3 Access for Shared Data: Save Storage Costs by Avoiding Replication

When managing multiple AWS accounts, one of the biggest pain points that often arises is how to handle shared data efficiently. The simple solution might seem like copying the data between accounts, but that can lead to massive storage costs, duplicated data management headaches, and a lot of inefficiencies. Fortunately,

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