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A practical 2026 playbook for cutting AWS spend and improving performance — right-sizing, Savings Plans, Graviton, Spot, storage tiering, egress contr...

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) controls who can do what in your AWS account. This practical 2026 guide explains IAM identities (users, group...

A practical, 2026-current guide to building production-grade AWS Lambda functions: cutting cold starts, lowering cost with ARM64/Graviton, idempotency...

A practical, 2026-current guide to building and deploying your first AWS Lambda function. Covers what Lambda is and when to use it, core concepts, a r...

A hands-on 2026 guide to building an event-driven AWS pipeline: a file lands in S3, Lambda processes it, and writes to DynamoDB. Modern Python 3.13 an...

Lost the private key (.pem) for your AWS EC2 instance? You can still get back in — and usually without any key. This 2026 guide covers the fastest mod...

A current, practical guide to configuring CORS for assets served from Amazon S3 and CloudFront: the modern JSON bucket CORS format, forwarding the Ori...

A practical 2026 guide to combining an Application Load Balancer, target groups and EC2 Auto Scaling Groups with launch templates, target-tracking pol...

Build a modern AWS CodePipeline that builds, tests, verifies with a custom Lambda action, and deploys your app — with EventBridge reacting to every pi...

Amazon SQS is a fully managed message queue that decouples and buffers the parts of your system. This 2026 guide shows how to process SQS with Python ...

Send transactional email from Django with Amazon SES over SMTP or the SESv2 API (django-ses and boto3), then receive inbound mail through SES receipt ...

A practical 2026 guide to deploying Django on AWS with CloudFormation infrastructure as code: a real YAML template (ALB, Auto Scaling Group, RDS Postg...