Cognito is AWS’s managed authentication service, but it comes with a critical limitation: user pools are region-bound. In this post, I explore why this matters in multi-region designs and the approaches you can take to solve it.
Databases should live in private subnets for security — but how do you access them when they’re not exposed to the internet? In this post, I cover bastion hosts, Session Manager, VPC peering, VPN/Direct Connect, and PrivateLink.
Overlapping CIDRs block VPC peering and make growth painful. Here’s a practical plan for org-wide CIDR design, Terraform guardrails, and zero-downtime migration.
Learn how AWS resource tagging can improve cost management, operations, security, and compliance in your cloud environment.
A sudden spike in AWS NAT Gateway costs can be painful — and without VPC Flow Logs, you’re left in the dark. Here’s why it happens, how to investigate, and what to do next.
ECR charges $0.10 per GB/month for stored Docker images. Learn how lifecycle policies can keep your costs under control and prevent runaway storage bills.
Discover how leveraging the GitHub Actions matrix strategy helped streamline multi-region AWS deployments, cut deploy times by 50%, and keep workflows maintainable.
Discover how switching to distroless images can drastically reduce Docker image size, improve security, and accelerate deployments.
Learn how improper memory allocation in AWS Lambda with Node.js can lead to crashes and inflated costs, and how tuning memory with NODE_OPTIONS can save you money.