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Ten Ways to Improve Your AWS Operations

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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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