Insights on AWS cloud security, infrastructure scanning, cost optimization, and compliance best practices.
Your first enterprise customer wants to see your SOC2 report. Here's what that actually means for your AWS account, which CIS benchmarks matter, and how to get compliant without hiring a full-time security team.
Open security groups are one of the most common AWS misconfigurations. Learn how to detect port 22, 3389, and 0.0.0.0/0 exposure using the Console and CLI.
The AWS billing dashboard tells you how much you spent. It doesn't tell you why. Here's how small teams can actually understand their AWS costs without dedicated FinOps tooling.
You need a map of your AWS infrastructure but AWS doesn't give you one. Here's what works for generating architecture diagrams, from manual tools to automated discovery, and where each approach breaks down.
CloudWatch dashboards show you metrics for things you already know about. The harder problem is understanding what you actually have running. Here's how to get an architecture-level view of your AWS account without building dashboards for every service.
Managing multiple AWS accounts is standard practice. Seeing what's actually in them is a different problem entirely. Here's what breaks when visibility doesn't scale with your account structure.
Unused AWS resources silently inflate your bill every month. Here's how to find idle EC2 instances, orphaned volumes, unused IPs, and forgotten load balancers — with CLI commands and practical cleanup steps.
A practical AWS account audit checklist built for solo engineers and small teams. Covers security, cost waste, IAM hygiene, and compliance checks you can run in under an hour.
AWS has no single screen that shows everything in your account. Here's why building a complete resource inventory is harder than it should be, and what actually works.
Orphaned EBS volumes silently inflate your AWS bill every month. Learn three ways to find and clean them up — from the AWS Console to CLI automation to dedicated scanning tools.
Handing someone the keys to an AWS account they've never seen is harder than it looks. Here's a practical onboarding process that gives a new DevOps engineer real context fast, not just a login and a prayer.