DevOps

I Left This AWS Task Half-Done for 2 Weeks – Here’s What It Taught Me

Introduction When you work with AWS infrastructure for some time, you realise that not all problems announce themselves with alerts or outages. Some problems stay quiet, blend into the background, and only reveal themselves later-usually when someone asks a question you can’t answer clearly. This is one such experience from my early...

by Vivek Tiwary
Tag: AWSBestPractices
15-Feb-2026

DevOps

Reclaiming Cloud Efficiency: Strategic Rightsizing for Business Impact

Introduction Cloud cost optimization is a vast and evolving discipline, but at its core, it starts with visibility. You can’t optimize what you can’t see. So, gaining granular insight into your cloud usage and billing is the basic foundation. You're not the only one who has ever thought, "This bill feels too high," after seeing your...

by Karandeep Singh
Tag: AWSBestPractices
10-Jul-2025

MSP

Ensuring high availability: Testing AWS availability zone failover with Fault Injection Service (FIS)

Introduction In this blog, I have checked application availability when one of the availability zones is down. AWS has regional services where there are more than one data centers, which are known as availability zones, to ensure High availability and redundancy. For instance, we have three availability zones for the ap-south-1(Mumbai)...

by Umang Dakh
Tag: AWSBestPractices
27-Feb-2025