yashwanth11187aws1.hashnode.devHidden Cloud Costs Nobody Warns You AboutThe silent leaks quietly draining your cloud budget It started with a simple question. “Traffic hasn’t increased. Instances are stable. Then why did our cloud bill go up again?” No outages.No sudden spike in users.No new features deployed. Yet the cl...Jan 7·3 min read
yashwanth11187aws1.hashnode.devWhy Cloud Bills Increase Even When Traffic Doesn’tThe first time it happens, you assume it’s a mistake. Your app hasn’t grown.Traffic looks the same.No new features were launched. Yet the cloud bill quietly increases. Not dramatically.Just enough to make you pause. And that pause is where most peopl...Jan 6·3 min read
yashwanth11187aws1.hashnode.devSecurity Groups & IAM: The First Real Step After EC2Launching an EC2 instance feels like progress. But here’s the uncomfortable truth: Most beginner AWS mistakes don’t come from bad code. They come from exposed servers. That’s why the very next thing to learn after Amazon EC2 is not scaling, not stora...Jan 5·3 min read
yashwanth11187aws1.hashnode.devBuilding a Secure AWS Network From Scratch: Public Subnet, Private Subnet, Bastion Host, and NAT GatewayWhen you first launch an EC2 instance, AWS feels simple. You click a few buttons.You get a public IP.You SSH in. And for a while, that feels like “cloud”. But the moment you ask: Who should be allowed in? Who should never be seen? How do private syst...Jan 4·5 min read
yashwanth11187aws1.hashnode.devWhy AWS Doesn’t Want You to Babysit Servers, And How Auto Scaling & VPC Quietly Do the Hard WorkThere’s a moment every engineer reaches. Not when things break.But when you realize you’re the one holding everything together. You’re restarting servers.Watching traffic graphs.Worrying about what happens if one machine goes down while you’re asleep...Jan 3·4 min read