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S3 is rather cheap (~$0.02/GB/m) but what if you need a file system? Yes, EFS works but costs 15x more (~$0.30/GB/m). 💸 AWS sums down to: S3: 🟢 Cheap and unlimited scale ❌ Object storage API only EFS: 🟢 Works with whatever needs a file system ❌ Expensive as hell So if you look at 50TB, it's $1,000 vs. $15,000 per month...

Your $400/month S3 bucket just became $100,000/month. Here's what happened: You store all your files in S3 You connect your application (i.e. video editing, HPC, etc.) to S3 and do lots of I/O ops Your bill explodes because of S3 API costs What was the mistake? You've used S3 as a typical file system instead of only storing files. This can get expensive 💸...

honeycomb.io published a blog post called "The End of Observability as We Know It." I've been using observability tools for years now. Heck, I wrote a book about CloudWatch. And honestly? I like the take of this post. Let's see a typical daily observability issue: - You have 5 AWS accounts. - Each account runs different services that interact with each other. To be able to find issues you use tools that observability providers have built for you like: 📕 Logs 📊 Dashboards 🔮 Traces...

Most people I know worry about their AWS accounts' security. With no spending cap, this is a valid concern. Today, with LLMs & MCP servers, security becomes even harder. I love using MCP servers for AWS tasks, especially with the large set of official ones provided by AWS. The problem: if you run them locally via your own assumed role, or even remotely in some instance or Lambda function, you always have the issue of sticky long-term credentials...

S3 wasn't designed to be a file system. But we keep using it as one. Here's what happens: Your app needs to read a 100GB file 📁 It makes 50,000 LIST requests. 200,000 GET requests. 30,000 HEAD requests. S3 charges per API call. Your $400/month storage bill? It becomes $100,000/month in API costs 💸 The real problem: S3 is an object store, not a file system...

We're using MCP servers with Teleport for secure data access. This lets team members request sensitive data through an internal LLM without direct permissions. The benefits: - Simplified onboarding - Fine-grained permissions for everything the LLM can do - Audits for everything Setup takes minutes to connect Teleport to AWS...