Networking & Content Delivery
Category: Business Intelligence
Protect Amazon Route 53 domains during account lifecycle events: Best practices for domain governance in multi-account organizations
Domain governance in Amazon Route 53 can mean the difference between a routine account decommissioning and an unplanned outage. Picture this situation: your organization closes an Amazon Web Services (AWS) account, and five days later a customer-facing website becomes unreachable, email stops flowing, and SSL certificate validation fails. A domain that this account had registered […]
Optimizing data transfer costs when using AWS Network Load Balancer
Following our previous post, Exploring Data Transfer Costs for AWS Network Load Balancers, this post explores architectural patterns to help optimize these expenses. Understanding inter-zone data transfer costs When network traffic flows across Amazon Web Services (AWS) Availability Zones (AZs), whether from clients to Network Load Balancers (NLBs) or from NLBs to targets, AWS applies […]
Reduce unexpected AWS costs: Tracing AWS billing charges with log correlation techniques
Imagine receiving an unexpected $1,200 Data Transfer Out (DTO) charge on your Amazon Web Services (AWS) bill. You know something generated significant outbound traffic, but you’re left wondering: which resource caused it? Where was the data sent? Was it legitimate application traffic or a security incident? This common challenge faces FinOps professionals, DevOps engineers, and […]