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Cleaning up an S3 bucket with the help of Athena

Imagine your basement or attic would provide unlimited capacity for storing stuff. Sounds great? Maybe ...

Cleaning up AMIs

Costs are like fingernails. You have to cut them constantly. When working with AWS, cleaning ...

Choosing the best way to scale EC2 instances on demand

Migrating workloads into the cloud — and specifically to AWS — comes with many advantages. ...

Checklist: Is your application ready for a container cluster?

Is your application ready to run on a container cluster? Use this checklist to find ...

Cheap, Durable, Fast. How to choose an EBS volume type?

Elastic Block Storage (EBS) provides solid state drives (SSD) and hard disk drives (HDD) for ...

Celebrating five years of marbot

Five years ago, we released marbot - ChatOps for AWS . Back in the day, ...

Calling AppSync GraphQL from Lambda

AWS AppSync provides an easy way to run a GraphQL API that triggers AWS Lambda ...

Calculate AWS Costs in Detail

Calculating AWS costs upfront is a challenge. To get accurate numbers, you have to understand ...

Caching on AWS 101

Oftentimes, the idea of adding a caching layer arises when users start complaining about the ...

Burst credits of t2 EC2 instances need monitoring

EC2 is one of the fundamental services on AWS. If you are not 100% Serverless, ...