AWS BASICS: THE TOP 10 AWS SECURITY TOOLS TO HELP US STAY PROTECTED

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Probably, the explicit focus on AWS Cloud Security is one of the primary reasons why AWS has made such a remarkable success. Not to mention the vast array of AWS security tools. It goes without saying that cloud security is a concern number one for cloud-adopting organizations globally. Nevertheless, 70% of IT leaders nowadays still highlight it […]

AWS Basics: The Top 10 AWS Cost Optimization Strategies and Tools

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Paying only for what you need and when you need it in AWS sounds tempting, right? In fact, you may presume that it includes AWS cost optimization in itself. Yet, everybody using cloud services is aware that sometimes costs may pile up!  Despite the various cost-saving options that AWS offers, cost optimization does not happen […]

AWS Basics: How Achieve Awesome Cloud Budgets by AWS Reserved Instances

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No doubt IT cloud budgets play an important role in our cloud utilization. Although AWS cloud payment conditions are flexible enough to let us pay for what we use, matching our spending to our workload cannot be taken for granted! So far, we have seen that managing cloud spend forms an issue of concern for […]

AWS Basics: AWS S3 vs AWS EBS vs AWS EFS

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If you are new to AWS product offerings, you may become a little overwhelmed by the variety of options you encounter when selecting a cloud storage service. And indeed, AWS storage services do have a variety of offerings here. Moreover, each seems to feature a specific set of cost, performance, and accessibility parameters which may […]

AWS BASICS: 7 REASONS WHY CONSIDER AWS ORGANIZATIONS

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Have you been already struggling with managing multiple Amazon Web Service (AWS) accounts with all their complexity, management requirements and worries?  If so, you must have encountered an intricate web of challenges concerning security, pricing, access and permission rights, to name a few? Probably, you have also been wondering if there is an easier way […]

AWS Basics:
How AWS EC2 Pricing Works + Examples

AWS Basics How Pricing Works

Price is one of the biggest problems people have with AWS.  And that’s pretty understandable.  Some AWS services are expensive and the data transfer costs aren’t easy to understand. But for the most part, people rack up huge bills because they never learned how AWS pricing works. That’s why it’s important to get a good […]

AWS Basics:
8 Services Everyone Working With AWS Should Learn

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This is the first installment in our AWS Basics series.  In it, I’ll cover fundamental AWS concepts and services. Today, we’re starting at the very beginning.  Pretty much all AWS customers use the 8 services I’ve listed below. You can’t go wrong with learning each one in detail. Let’s get started. Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) […]