A practical guide to AWS Backup — backup plans, vault policies, cross-Region and cross-account copies, RPO/RTO alignment, and the data protection patterns that keep production workloads recoverable.
A practical guide to AWS CodePipeline — pipeline architecture, CodeBuild configuration, deployment strategies, cross-account pipelines, and the CI/CD patterns that ship code safely to production.
A practical guide to AWS Route 53 — hosted zones, routing policies, health checks, DNS failover, domain registration, and the traffic management patterns that make applications highly available.
A practical guide to AWS IAM — least privilege policies, IAM roles vs users, permission boundaries, SCPs, identity federation, and the access control patterns that secure production workloads without slowing teams down.
A practical guide to the 6 pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework — what each pillar covers, why it matters, and how to apply it to your AWS workloads.
A practical guide to AWS auto scaling — target tracking, step scaling, scheduled scaling, predictive scaling, and the strategies that balance performance, availability, and cost across EC2, ECS, and Lambda workloads.
A practical comparison of AWS Secrets Manager and SSM Parameter Store — pricing, rotation, encryption, cross-account access, and clear guidelines for when to use each service for secrets and configuration management.
A practical guide to AWS SQS — standard vs FIFO queues, dead-letter queues, visibility timeout tuning, Lambda integration, and the messaging patterns that make distributed systems reliable.
A practical guide to AWS VPC networking — CIDR planning, subnet strategies, NAT gateways, VPC endpoints, Transit Gateway, and the network architecture patterns that scale with your organization.
A practical guide to CloudFormation for production — stack organization, cross-stack references, drift detection, change sets, rollback strategies, and the practices that make infrastructure deployments safe and repeatable.
A practical guide to choosing between monolithic and microservices architectures on AWS — team size, deployment complexity, operational cost, and the patterns that help you choose the right approach for your stage.
A practical guide to AWS API Gateway — choosing between REST, HTTP, and WebSocket APIs, authentication patterns, throttling, caching, and the architecture decisions that determine API performance and cost.