After twenty years building and scaling infrastructure, I’ve learned that the most expensive problems in AWS aren’t the ones staring at you in Cost Explorer. They’re the ones hiding in plain sight across accounts, regions, and services you forgot you were running. Most teams approach AWS cost management bottom-up—hunting for idle EC2 instances, right-sizing RDS…
Tag: Landing Zones
That Landing Zone You Built 3 years ago? It’s Already Old.
Here’s an uncomfortable truth I’ve learned after building hundreds of AWS Landing Zones: the one you deployed two years ago is already out of date. And the longer you wait to address it, the more expensive the fix becomes. According to AWS, customers typically rebuild their Landing Zones every three years. Not update. Rebuild. The…