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Reduce AWS bills with aws-nuke

Many of the organizations use AWS as their cloud infrastructure, and in general they have multiple AWS accounts for production, staging, and development. Inevitably, this would result in losing track of various experimental AWS resources instantiated by your developers. Eventually, you will be paying AWS bills for resources which could have been identified and deleted in time. So, how should you go about identifying and deleting such unnecessary resources? aws-nuke to the rescue.

Tech Talk: Galileo Cloud Compass

A video chat with the developers who bring right-sized cloud costing information in real-time. It all started with a casual conversation about the cloud and infrastructure monitoring among the team at Galileo and our parent company, The ATS Group. From there, it quickly evolved into a discussion on how we can alleviate a source of frustration for many of our customers.

Crash Course on AWS CDK and Serverless with REST API and Data Lake Analytical Querying

This is a hands-on course on how to deploy a fully Serverless web app using the AWS CDK. You can use the resources declared in this demo application as a starting point to mix and adapt to your own architectures later, which should save you quite some time.

Anodot Tutorial: Monitoring AWS Usage with Machine Learning

A 3-minute guide to help you start monitoring your AWS usage on Anodot's machine learning platform. Once it's up and running, Anodot will continuously monitor your AWS usage and deliver real-time alerts when there's an anomalous spike or drop. This powerful capability enables you to act quickly, far before costs get out of hand.

Best Practices in Handling the Application Insights Custom Events

Application Insights is used to monitor your live applications. It automatically detects performance anomalies. It also helps you to diagnose issues with the help of powerful analytics tools and to understand what users do with your app. The aim of development team is to help you understand how your app is performing and how it is being used by the customers.

Byte Down Too: Build Cost Effective Infrastructure Like Netflix

Think of orgs with lots of data and it’s impossible to not think of Netflix. In a new Netflix Technology Blog, titled "Byte Down: Making Netflix’s Data Infrastructure Cost-Effective", their Platform Data Science & Engineering team describe their data infrastructure "which is composed of dozens of data platforms, hundreds of data producers and consumers, and petabytes of data.” At this scale, cost-effectiveness is a critical matter of success and failure.