PSPawan Sawalaniinthepawan.dev·Mar 24 · 16 min readMigrating GitLab Runners from EKS Fargate to EKS Auto Mode: A 40% Cost Reduction JourneyThe Problem: Fargate Costs Were Adding Up For over a year, we ran our GitLab Runners on Amazon EKS with AWS Fargate. The serverless approach was appealing—no nodes to manage, automatic scaling, and a 00
PSPawan Sawalaniinthepawan.dev·Mar 6 · 4 min readI'm Now an AWS Community Builder — Here's What That MeansA few days ago, I received an email I'd been hoping for: I've been accepted into the AWS Community Builders program under the Dev Tools category. In this post, I want to share what the program is, why00
PSPawan Sawalaniinthepawan.dev·May 13, 2025 · 18 min readLevel Up Your Cloud Security: My Playbook for DevSecOps Acceleration with AWS LZAIntroduction: The Quest for Secure and Agile Cloud Operations Let's be honest, scaling cloud operations is exciting, but keeping everything secure and agile as you grow? That’s where the real challenge begins. Juggling multiple AWS accounts, ensuring...00
PSPawan Sawalaniinthepawan.dev·May 2, 2025 · 13 min readAutomating AWS EC2 CloudWatch Agent Monitoring & Email Alerting with Lambda and CDKEnsuring that the CloudWatch Agent is installed and running on all EC2 instances is crucial for complete observability. In this guide, we’ll explore why monitoring the CloudWatch Agent matters, why you should alert on missing/stopped agents, and how ...00
PSPawan Sawalaniinthepawan.dev·Apr 19, 2025 · 21 min readAlerting for AWS EC2 Instances Not Managed by SSM Using AWS Config and CDKMonitoring your EC2 instances to ensure they’re managed by AWS Systems Manager (SSM) is crucial for security, compliance, and smooth operations. In this post, we’ll explain why SSM-managed instances are so important, how instances can become “unmanag...00
