Ten Ways to Improve Your AWS Operations
AWS Cloud Operations Blog
This article provides 10 tips to improve AWS operations and ensure that resources are running safely, efficiently, and cost-effectively.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Inspecting costs and usage with AWS Cost Explorer, Cost and Usage Reports, and budgets
- Reviewing Amazon GuardDuty configuration and findings
- Managing unused CloudWatch log groups and log streams
- Identifying and removing unused IAM roles with IAM Access Analyzer
- Verifying alerting mechanisms like EventBridge rules and SNS topics
- Monitoring Lambda execution failures and log errors/exceptions
- Detecting unauthorized access attempts in CloudTrail logs
- Analyzing "top talker" CloudTrail activity to understand automation
- Using S3 Storage Lens to optimize S3 usage and costs
- Ensuring account contact information is up-to-date
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