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…

I recently ran into a tricky issue during a Kubernetes deployment. I had an AWS Network Load Balancer (NLB) set up to handle traffic for an LDAP service, but 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 causing…

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…

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,…

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) offers a powerful feature known as ECS Exec, revolutionizing how developers interact with containers within ECS clusters, bringing efficient management and debugging. Understanding Amazon ECS Exec Amazon ECS Exec simplifies container management by enabling direct access to containers in an ECS cluster without requiring SSH or other external access. It…