To understand the costs associated with the hundreds of AWS Services available, one must have visibility and an operational overview of the cost of running services. AWS Cost Explorer provides valuable tools and insights to see the cost of running infrastructure in AWS.With the data available with f..

The key to cost optimization with AWS S3 is understanding and utilizing the various S3 instance classes based on your use cases. Adding lifecycle policies that automatically move data from the most expensive storage to the cheapest will dramatically reduce your AWS Spending and begin the path to bei..

SummaryThe Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) when used with EC2 can power durable, secure, performant applications with unlimited scale. AWS provides six different EBS volumes provisioned with various benchmarks. Before selecting a volume, companies have to assess their needs to make a well-balanced ..

You can add multiple periods if you have a set of start/stop times. Since there are working components to the solution, there is a cost associated with the solution. You can find the complete breakdown of the cost here. However, given the savings you can generate this solution will pay for itself an..

AWS Spot instances are an underrated computing option that has traditionally had a bad reputation based on fault tolerance requirements. However, with the rise of fault-tolerant systems and the need for cheap, repeatable compute requirements for Big Data, Batch processing, and CI/CD processing, Spot..

Historically, AWS has only had Reserved instances to provide long-term cost savings. However, Reserved instances provided the highest possible discounts as the cost of complexity, rigidness of choice, and required dedicated research into future computing needs and feasibility studies.AWS Saving plan..

IntroductionCountless applications rely on Amazon Web Services’ Simple Notification Service for application-to-application communication such as webhooks and callbacks. To verify the authenticity of these messages, these projects use certificate-based signature validation based on the SigningCertURL..