Published inWebstep·Sep 28, 2022AWS price and cost — multi account setup(This is part 4 of a series of blog posts related to pricing and cost in AWS.) In the first three blog posts I have looked into how AWS price and cost relates to a single AWS account. But what if we start using multiple accounts? Will we get a…AWS8 min readAWS8 min read
Published inWebstep·Sep 22, 2022AWS price and cost — analysing and monitoring(This is part 3 of a series of blog posts related to pricing and cost in AWS.) You are up and running on AWS, and the bills are trickling in (and money out). Now it is time to start being proactive about spending, as a bad design or bugs in…AWS7 min readAWS7 min read
Published inWebstep·Sep 19, 2022AWS price and cost — billing(This is part 2 of a series of blog posts related to pricing and cost in AWS.) Using AWS-services most likely means that you have to pay for them, or at least relate to the cost of using them (see part 1 for intro to cost). AWS invoices customers on…AWS4 min readAWS4 min read
Published inWebstep·Sep 16, 2022AWS price and cost — introduction(This is part 1 of a series of blogposts related to pricing and cost in AWS) I wanted to highlight this topic as I get a lot of questions related to this. It is important to understand all aspects of cost for both business and technical architects when starting to…AWS6 min readAWS6 min read
Published inWebstep·Aug 10, 2022Import existing resources into an AWS CloudFormation-stackWorking with infrastructure as code is the recommended way to provision resources in AWS. The native AWS-way of doing it is via CloudFormation or CDK (Cloud Development Kit), and you should of course do this from day one. …AWS4 min readAWS4 min read
Published inWebstep·Jan 27, 2022Let’s confirm you are humanAWS WAF now have support for Captcha Captcha-support for AWS WAF (Web Application Firewall) was announced recently. Most of us are seeing captchas when we are registering new accounts, making orders online or simply want to check the flight-times to Paris.Cloud Computing4 min readCloud Computing4 min read
Published inWebstep·May 21, 2021Are you relying on automated upgrades of your SQLServer in AWS?UPDATE: As of August 16, 2021, Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Automatic Minor Version Upgrades This does NOT apply to all versions of SQL-server — you can use the CLI-command aws rds describe-db-engine-version to check for availability. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Relational Database Service (RDS) covers PostgreSQL, MySQL…Cloud Computing4 min readCloud Computing4 min read
Published inWebstep·Feb 9, 2021Save AWS-cost on CloudFrontAWS have again announced a form of price reduction on one of their services (or actually multiple services). This time based on an old service, Amazon CloudFront, and this is through a savings plan. As most savings plans in AWS you would need to commit to a year, and think…AWS3 min readAWS3 min read
