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AWS

AWS DynamoDB Pricing: A Complete Guide to Understanding and Optimizing Costs

DynamoDB pricing can be unpredictable. Learn how capacity modes, storage, and request patterns affect your bill—plus 8 strategies to cut costs.

#DynamoDB#NoSQL#Database Pricing
Nishant Thorat
Nishant Thorat
11 min read
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FinOps

What is FinOps? A Beginner's Guide to Cloud Financial Management

Cloud costs feeling out of control? FinOps brings finance, engineering, and business teams together to take charge of cloud spending—without slowing down innovation.

#FinOps#cloud costs#cost optimization
Nishant Thorat
Nishant Thorat
10 min read
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AWS

AWS Database Savings Plans: The Complete 2026 Guide

Save up to 35% on AWS database costs with Database Savings Plans. This guide covers eligible services, discount rates, limitations, and when to use them over Reserved Instances.

#AWS Database Savings Plans#RDS#Aurora
Nishant Thorat
Nishant Thorat
10 min read
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Finding unencrypted AWS EBS Volumes at scale

Encryption protects data stored on volumes, disk I/O, and the snapshots created from a volume to protect your sensitive data from exploits & unauthorized users

Nishant Thorat
Nishant Thorat
10 min read
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Building Tags megastore for Effective AWS Management

Using AWS Tags for effective AWS management, cost allocation, and security. Understanding tagging, using it effectively helps to allocate cost and secure cloud.

Nishant Thorat
Nishant Thorat
10 min read
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How to get Free AWS credits!

AWS is generous to offer credits to cloud engineers and startups. Experiement or bootstrap your startup with AWS credits.

Nishant Thorat
Nishant Thorat
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AWS Config: Know before you take a plunge!

AWS Config is used for tracking and audit of AWS resources.AWS Config has many disadvantages.AWS Config setup is complicated,does not offer complete visibility.

Nishant Thorat
Nishant Thorat
15 min read
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AWS VPC: Security Group vs NACL

Cloud Network Security: AWS Security Groups vs NACLs. NACL and Security Groups work together to protect AWS resources in VPC.

Nishant Thorat
Nishant Thorat
10 min read
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AWS Lambda Cold Starts Now Cost Money: August 2025 Billing Changes Explained

Starting August 1, 2025, AWS Lambda will charge for cold start initialization (INIT phase) across all function configurations. Learn how this affects your costs

Nishant Thorat
Nishant Thorat
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The Native Tools Trap: Why Cloud Cost Management Tools Fall Short

Discover why native cloud cost management tools aren't enough for modern businesses. Learn how to get real business insights from your cloud spending.

Nishant Thorat
Nishant Thorat
10 min read
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AWS Lambda's New Tiered Logging Pricing: Unlocking new savings

AWS introduces tiered pricing for Lambda logs and new destinations, including S3 and Firehose. Learn how these changes can reduce costs.

Nishant Thorat
Nishant Thorat
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Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey: Save Up to 33% on Your Redis Costs with Zero-Downtime Migration

Discover how Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey can reduce your Redis costs by up to 33% with zero code changes. Learn about granular billing, performance benefits.

Nishant Thorat
Nishant Thorat
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