Articles tagged with "level-200"

There are different methodologies for estimating and optimizing pricing in AWS. You pay for what you use, and if you use too much, you pay too much. The usage and the price especially for our Amazon Connect Customer projects differs with changing processes and technical architecture decisions. To adress that challenge, we have developed a flow-based estimation strategy, which we use in our discussions with customers to find the best solution. This tool provides the transparency you need to choose between different architectures based on their features and costs. We’ll show you a real-world example in which we reduced technical costs by 11%. This was only possible thanks to the transparency gained by comparing different approaches.

A personal essay about building vibestack - a pack of 44 slash commands for Claude Code - and what that has to do with where the industry is heading in 2026. The most valuable layer in agentic coding is not the model or the IDE; it is the small, specific, slightly opinionated personal layer you build on top of everything else.

The AWS website project is launched! But, as usual, we forgot something – good documentation. How do you create good diagrams for documentation when the schedule is tight? For this task, an LLM that can alter local files, together with a text-based diagram tool, really gives great results. Let me show you.

Customer requirements demanded the setup of a SQL Failover Cluster on EC2. Following AWS’s reference setup, I encountered some issues that cost me a couple of hours. In this blog post, I’ll share my experience and the solutions I found, hopefully saving you valuable time and making your journey to set up a SQL 2019 Failover Cluster with Windows Server 2019 on EC2 smoother and more enjoyable.

Opportunity cost is an important economic concept, but sometimes we need to ignore it to learn something. Join me in using a variety of services and tools to figure out what is using my KMS keys and if I can safely delete them.

In the previous post, “API Gateway and Lambda Throttling with Terraform”, we covered the basics of setting up throttling for your API Gateway and Lambda functions. In this follow-up, we’ll take it to the next level, adding budget controls, time-based throttling adjustments, and AWS WAF security integration to safeguard your API while optimizing both performance and cost-efficiency.

In today’s cloud-native world, effectively managing API and serverless function performance is crucial for building reliable and cost-effective applications. This guide explores advanced throttling techniques for AWS API Gateway and Lambda using Terraform, incorporating best practices from the AWS Well-Architected Framework and real-world implementation patterns.

When using Business Intelligence solutions, it can quickly become difficult to manage all the resources created by numerous users. In this blog article, we will see how the Amazon QuickSight API was leveraged to determine which resources used up all the available SPICE capacity in our Amazon QuickSight account.