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Last year, I observed a notable increase in our AWS invoice, amounting to $8,000 compared to the previous month. To identify the root causes of this spike, we conducted a thorough investigation utilizing AWS Cost Explorer and AWS billing reports. My analysis revealed several key contributors to the cost escalation, including EC2-others, Saving Plan, EC2 instances, Tax, EFS, S3, CloudTrail, and CloudWatch. Through a detailed

Governance at Scale: Intro to AWS Landing Zone Accelerator Landing Zone Accelerator Architecture In my previous blogs, I have discussed AWS Landing Zone and its evolution. I also talked about the AWS Control Tower service, which streamlined the deployment and management of the AWS Landing Zone solution for multi-account AWS environments. I explained that by utilizing Control Tower Lifecycle events, you can extend the governance capabilities of AWS

Migration Acceleration Program (MAP): Accelerate customers cloud migration and modernization journey AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) Phases : Image source AWS Imagine you’re a CIO, CEO, or CTO of a sizable enterprise company tasked to craft Cloud Strategy for your organization. You’re fully convinced that steering the company toward cloud adoption is the optimal path for its expansion. However, there’s a significant hurdle: all applications

Querying data using Amazon S3 Select Using Amazon S3 Select, you can filter the contents of an Amazon S3 object and retrieve a subset of data using SQL statements. S3 Select can reduce the amount of data that needs to be transferred from Amazon S3, lowering the cost and latency of data retrieval. Key Benefits Improved performance: S3 Select allows you to retrieve only the

7 top things to know about Amazon S3 AWS S3 is a highly reliable and scalable cloud storage service that allows you to store any amount of data for as long as you want. S3 offers simple APIs for managing your content and a rich set of features to meet your different business needs, but it can require substantial time and effort to manage properly.

How to Pass AWS SA Professional (SAP-C02) certification? I am very excited to announce that I passed (re-certified) the newer version of the AWS Solution Architect Professional (SAP-CO2) exam. The excitement stems from two things: First, it’s the most recent version of this certification. Second, I just passed this exam after only preparing for seven days! Preparing for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional (SAP-C02)

Building deployment pipelines on AWS Cloud has never been easy with SAM CLI AWS SAM Pipeline is a new capability in AWS SAM CLI. It makes it easier to auto-generate secure, continuous integration and deployment pipelines for your organization’s CI/CD system. AWS SAM Pipelines provides templates for popular CI/CD systems such as AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and GitLab CI/CD. Solution In this blog, I

Sourced Group is an AWS Premium Consulting Partner. It enables its customers and internal teams to learn about AWS services and tools in various ways. One of the ways is to conduct an immersion day on a specific AWS subject. Last month I was fortunate to deliver Immersion Day for Sourced Group ANZ regional team on the AWS Control Tower topic. What is AWS Immersion

What is AWS Control Tower? The AWS Control Tower is a self-service tool that allows you the easiest way to Setup and Govern a multi-account AWS environment based on best practices. Helpful to both administrators and developers, it establishes a landing zone that is based on best-practices blueprints, and it enables governance using guardrails you can choose from a pre-packaged list of policies. The Landing Zone is a well-architected, multi-account baseline

Deploying Lambda Functions with SAM CLI Serverless applications are a relatively new paradigm in software development. Serverless architectures allow developers to create, access and deploy applications without managing servers or infrastructure.   What is the AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM)? AWS SAM is an open-source framework for building serverless applications. It provides shorthand syntax to express functions, APIs, databases, and event source mappings. You can

Programmatically spin up an Amazon Connect Instance with new APIs. What is Amazon Connect? Amazon Connect is an omnichannel cloud contact center. Omnichannel contact centers offer customers the same experience across all channels (phone, chat, email, text (SMS), and social media) providing customer service agents a more straightforward interface and richer data set. We can set up a contact center in a few steps, add

AWS CloudWatch – Aggregate view of Multi-Account Cloudwatch metrics (EC2 Instances). What are Cloudwatch Metrics? Cloudwatch metrics are data about the performance of our systems. By default, many services provide free metrics for resources (such as Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon EBS volumes, and Amazon RDS DB instances). We can also enable detailed monitoring for some resources, such as our Amazon EC2 instances, or publish our