Insights from the Field
Practical guides from real AWS engagements - funding, FinOps, public sector, and platform engineering.
Reserved Instances vs. Savings Plans - Which One Saves You More Money
Both give you 30-70% discounts. One locks you to specific instance types. The other gives you flexibility. Here is how to choose - and how to avoid paying for resources you do not use.
Read article →SOC 2 on AWS: The Controls That Get Audited
SOC 2 evidence sounds simple until you realize your infrastructure does not produce it. Here is what auditors actually check on AWS - and the services you need in place before the audit starts.
Read article →Terraform at Scale: Module Patterns That Work
Most Terraform problems come from bad module design, not from Terraform itself. These are the patterns we use for multi-account, multi-environment customers to keep changes safe and easy to review.
Read article →ISO 27001 vs. SOC 2: What Each Audit Checks
SOC 2 and ISO 27001 both prove that security controls exist, but they look at different things. SOC 2 checks controls around a specific service. ISO 27001 checks the company-wide security management system behind those controls.
Read article →You Are Paying Too Much for Over-Provisioned AWS Resources
Most teams know they use more AWS resources than they need. Few know how much they waste. Here is where the extra cost comes from - and why CloudWatch alone will not show it.
Read article →EKS, ECS, Lambda: When to Use Each
How to choose between EKS, ECS, and Lambda on AWS. EKS is often the right fit when you need fast development cycles, GitOps environments, Karpenter, spot savings, and room to scale. Lambda or ECS can still work for simple workloads, but each has tradeoffs.
Read article →HIPAA on AWS: Which Services Are BAA-Eligible
You signed the AWS BAA. That is the easy part. The hard part is configuring 170+ eligible services correctly, satisfying 45 CFR 164.312 technical safeguards, and keeping ePHI from leaking to non-eligible services.
Read article →How to Access AWS Funding - Step by Step
The step-by-step process to claim AWS funding: match the program, check eligibility, submit the SOW, deliver, get credits.
Read article →Continuous Compliance: From Audit Project to Audit Posture
How to build continuous compliance on AWS using Config conformance packs, Security Hub standards, Audit Manager, and automated remediation - the specific services, rules, and workflows that make audits boring and predictable.
Read article →How We Reduced Cloud Costs by 35% in 60 Days With Finoptic
A real customer story: where the waste was, what we fixed first, and how we made the savings last after we left.
Read article →Public Sector on AWS: What Nimbus Actually Requires
Project Nimbus is the Israeli government cloud framework. This post explains what it requires from suppliers and how to deploy a workload on it without rebuilding your system.
Read article →DevOps vs. Managed Services: What Growing Teams Need
Hiring a Head of DevOps costs $200K and takes six months to evaluate. Here is the framework we use with growth-stage customers - and the three engagement models that reduce the risk.
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