My Quest for CloudWatch Monitoring on AWS Lightsail with Terraform
Lightsail hides IAM roles for simplicity, which breaks the CloudWatch agent. Here is the workaround: an IAM user with explicit credentials, automated with Terraform.
[ READ MORE >> ]CloudWatch Dashboards Are Great (If You Build Them Right)
How to build useful CloudWatch dashboards with Terraform: start in the console, export to JSON, then make it repeatable with IaC.
[ READ MORE >> ]When Time Changes But Your Lambda Cannot - The Hidden Risk of Immutable Serverless Timezones
How immutable functions create a unique challenge for handling timezone updates, and the hybrid solution that actually works in production.
[ READ MORE >> ]5 Cool and Actually Useful CloudWatch Tricks You Can Start Using Today
CloudWatch beyond the basics: parse logs like a data warehouse, build missing metrics with math, find top talkers, stop alert storms, and skip threshold guessing with anomaly detection.
[ READ MORE >> ]FinOps, But With a Carbon KPI - My Intro to GreenOps
Why I started caring about cloud carbon emissions, what GreenOps actually means, and two practical steps you can take today: kill zombies and migrate to Graviton.
[ READ MORE >> ]Sustainability with AWS Graviton - The Quiet Migration That Actually Moves the Needle
How switching to Graviton-based instances offers up to 60% less energy usage without compromise. A practical approach to cloud sustainability that improves cost and performance.
[ READ MORE >> ]Making Your AWS Emissions Visible: A Practical Guide to the Customer Carbon Footprint Tool
Talking about GreenOps and FinOps is abstract until you can point at a graph. The AWS Customer Carbon Footprint Tool gives you exactly that visibility for your cloud emissions.
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