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…
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Zero Trust in AWS Part 2: The $250K Wake-Up Call
This is Part 2 of my Zero Trust series. If you haven’t read Part 1: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Paranoid Security, start there for the foundation. In Part 1, I talked about Zero Trust like it was a nice-to-have security philosophy. Layer cakes and paranoid parents. But let me tell you…