Tag: how-to-guide

Production guide for Kubecost on AWS EKS — cost allocation setup plus architecture changes that reduce spend, not just attribute it.

Implement ProsperOps on AWS — Savings Plans automation works best after baseline modeling and architecture stability. Production checklist included.

Prowler finds AWS misconfigurations. This guide covers who remediates findings, IaC fix patterns, Security Hub workflows, and when to bring in AWS security consulting.

Production checklist for Prowler and AWS Security Hub — multi-account setup, scheduled scans, finding workflows, and remediation patterns on AWS.

MAP Mobilize should not start with more than five failed controls in Platform or Security. This 47-point readiness checklist (People, Platform, Security, FinOps) is the auditable artifact we attach to Assess-phase business cases—aligned to CAF 3.0 and the Migration Lens, not generic cloud maturity fluff.

Nine recurring program mistakes still show up in 2026 reviews—especially after AWS closed Migration Hub to new customers on November 7, 2025. Practical fixes tied to AMS (MGN), DMS, AWS Transform, Org/SCPs, FinOps bubble costs, and the Migration Lens checklist.

SOC 2 Type II certification proves your controls are effective over 6-12 months. This guide covers the compliance roadmap, AWS security controls, documentation requirements, and audit preparation for 2026 certification.

Amazon Bedrock Agents Classic automate workflows by giving foundation models the ability to call tools (APIs, Lambda, databases). This guide covers building agents with tool definitions, testing in the console, handling errors, and scaling to production.

Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases automate the RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipeline — semantic search, chunking, embedding, and context injection into Claude or other foundation models. This guide covers setup, data ingestion, cost optimization, and production patterns.

AWS Glue automates ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) workflows while Athena provides serverless SQL queries. This guide covers building a complete data pipeline: ingesting raw data, transforming it, and querying at scale without managing servers.

AWS WAF protects APIs from SQL injection, XSS, DDoS, and account takeover attacks. This guide covers advanced WAF rules, rate limiting, bot control, and production patterns for defending REST APIs and GraphQL endpoints.

Karpenter replaces Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaler with intelligent bin-packing and just-in-time node provisioning. This guide covers setup, consolidation, cost optimization, and production patterns for EKS clusters.