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AWS

Definition

AWS coverage in this archive spans 11 posts from Mar 2016 to Dec 2021 and focuses on reliability, delivery speed, and cost discipline as one system, not three separate concerns. The strongest adjacent threads are cloud, architecture, and infrastructure. Recurring title motifs include cloud, bill, aws, and terraform.

Key claims

  • Most posts prioritize predictable operations over feature breadth or stack novelty.
  • Early posts lean on cost and cloud, while newer posts lean on cloud and bill as constraints shifted.
  • This topic repeatedly intersects with cloud, architecture, and infrastructure, so design choices here rarely stand alone.

Practical checklist

  • Set SLOs first, then choose tooling that keeps deploy, observability, and rollback simple.
  • Start with the newest post to calibrate current constraints, then backtrack to older entries for first principles.
  • When boundary questions appear, cross-read cloud and architecture before committing implementation details.

Failure modes

  • Adding platform layers faster than the team can operate and debug them.
  • Chasing throughput gains without proving they improve end-user reliability.
  • Applying guidance from 2016 to 2021 without revisiting assumptions as context changed.

Suggested reading path

References

11 entries tagged “AWS”

    The AWS us-east-1 Outage Was Predictable. Your Architecture Was Not Ready. · 4 min December 7 reminded everyone that us-east-1 is a single point of failure for half the internet. Again. I am annoyed. aws outage reliability Terraform at Scale: What Changed Since 2019 · 6 min Two years ago I wrote about Terraform patterns for growing teams. Here's what held up, what broke, and what I do differently now. terraform infrastructure-as-code devops Multi-Cloud Is Mostly a Marketing Strategy · 4 min Multi-cloud sounds great in vendor pitches. In practice, it doubles your operational burden for benefits most teams will never need. multi-cloud cloud architecture Serverless vs Containers: Where the Math Stops Working · 5 min Serverless is great until it isn't. A comparison of serverless and containers at different traffic scales, with actual numbers on where the economics flip. serverless containers architecture Your Cloud Security Is Falling Apart Right Now · 7 min Everyone's scrambling to scale cloud infrastructure overnight. I've seen what happens when security gets deprioritized under pressure — at NATO exercises, at Decloud, at the fintech startup. Here's how to not become a headline. security cloud aws Your Cloud Bill Is a Design Document · 6 min Cloud cost management isn't a finance problem. It's an architecture problem disguised as a spreadsheet. Here's how to treat your AWS bill like the engineering signal it actually is. finops cloud cost-optimization Your Cloud Bill Is Lying to You: A Cost Optimization Comparison · 5 min A direct comparison of cloud cost optimization strategies -- what actually moves the needle vs. what just makes finance feel better. cloud aws cost-optimization Your Cloud Bill Is Lying to You · 4 min That clean AWS pricing page has almost nothing to do with your actual invoice. I learned this the hard way at the fintech startup. cloud aws cost-optimization The Real Cost of Running Your Own Servers in 2016 · 3 min Most startups have no business running their own servers. The math is not close. cloud infrastructure aws Why I Moved Our Infrastructure to Terraform · 6 min We moved from console-driven, script-heavy infrastructure to Terraform so changes are reviewed, reproducible, and recoverable from code. terraform infrastructure-as-code devops AWS Lambda: When Serverless Makes Sense (And When It Doesn't) · 4 min Lambda is a sharp tool for specific jobs. The problem is everyone wants to use it for everything. serverless aws lambda
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