Category: AWS

Let’s be real, who doesn’t love saving money? We want performance, sure, but we also need to keep those costs in check. If you’re running containerized apps on AWS ECS, you might have heard the buzz about Graviton2 processors and Fargate Spot. These two technologies offer a powerful combination for cost reduction. Hitting a Roadblock…

We recently ran into a tricky issue during a Kubernetes deployment. We had an AWS Network Load Balancer (NLB) set up to handle traffic for an LDAP service, but we kept seeing intermittent traffic drops. Direct connections to the LDAP server worked fine, but some queries sent through the NLB would time out, which was…

In this post, we discuss a recent change from AWS which allows for updating the root user email address for any member account that are attached to an AWS Organization. Along with the associated security considerations of that change. What’s new?AWS recently announced the ability to centrally manage the root email addresses of member accounts…

We recently helped one of our clients fix a frustrating issue with their site-to-site VPN connection. They had it set up with one of their partners, and while traffic to the IP address 192.168.100.21 always worked perfectly, Digging into the Logs We started by checking out the VPN logs and noticed the client was using…

In this post, we’ll explore a case study of how an organization streamlined their DNS management by using AWS CLI, focusing on the delegation of NS records. Background Acme Corp, a fictitious company, has a centralized AWS environment (the Shared Network Account) and several other AWS accounts for different development stages and teams (e.g., Development,…