Redis Cluster backups to Amazon S3 using a single bash script and cron. It’s safe, slot-aware (backs up every node you run it on), and waits for BGSAVE to finish before uploading. What this setup does Runs on each Redis node, including masters and replicas, so you get a full cluster backup. It triggers BGSAVE, […]
If you’ve ever managed AWS at scale, you know the story. Costs don’t explode overnight; they sneak up on you. The bill looks fine in the early days, but once more teams start spinning up workloads, the line item for EC2 begins climbing faster than anyone planned. Finance asks for answers, engineers shrug, and you […]
In this blog, I will walk you through the steps to secure access to S3 objects using Amazon CloudFront (CDN) integrated with Amazon Cognito authentication. The goal is to move away from easily shareable pre-signed URLs and instead enforce user in cognito user pool based, authenticated access. For example, a team may need to access […]
INTRODUCTION to SIAM: What is SIAM? Are you listening to this buzz word for the first time? No problem, I also heard it for the first time a few years ago. Leading IT consulting firms and service providers such as HCL, Infosys, Kinetic IT, and TCS have not only adopted and implemented SIAM, […]
Introduction In modern cloud engineering projects, speed and quality often clash. Teams want to ship features fast, but rushed reviews, inconsistent coding standards, and manual bottlenecks slow progress. That’s where CodeRabbit, an AI-driven code review tool, makes a difference. By automating repetitive review tasks and providing intelligent feedback, CodeRabbit helps engineers focus on higher-value work […]
Overview Domain migration to AWS may seem very complicated at first, but to change the domain registrar is very straight forward. AWS Service Route 53 provides highly available and scalable DNS services, seamless integration with AWS workloads, and advanced features like traffic routing, health checks, and monitoring. In this blog, I will walk through the […]
Introduction AWS Billing and Cost Management is a set of services that enables organizations to track, analyze, and optimize their spending on the cloud more effectively. It can be categorized into three areas: billing, cost management, and usage reporting. Billing ensures that payments are processed and managed automatically, while cost management focuses on giving customers […]
What is AWS Cloudwatch synthetics?AWS synthetics is a tool powered by AWS Cloudwatch which allows you to create and manage canaries. It is a real time monitoring tool which helps you to detect problems by mimicking a real user behaviour. What are canaries? Canary in the context of AWS cloudwatch is a small script that […]
Introduction AWS System Manager (SSM) is a secure, end-to-end process to be used for managing servers on AWS, on-premises, and on any other cloud platform. We can manage our servers from one central point using the SSM. Prerequisites: You must have an AWS account with the Required IAM permissions: SSM (Systems Manager), EC2, and IAM […]
