tgaleev.comWorking with AWS European Sovereign Cloud (ESC): Terraform, IaC, and what's differentIf you manage AWS infrastructure with code, the European Sovereign Cloud adds a new partition to think about. Different endpoints, separate IAM, its own console. This guide covers what works out of thJan 28·17 min read
tgaleev.comECS vs EKS: When You DON'T Need Kubernetes - A Practical Guide to Choosing AWS Container ServicesIntroduction You know what? I see teams spinning up Kubernetes clusters for three microservices all the time. Then they spend two months figuring out pods, ingress controllers, and all that magic. And then they pay $70 per month just for three cluste...Jan 4·13 min read
tgaleev.comAWS ECS Evolution: Managed Instances and Advanced Deployment StrategiesThe container orchestration landscape on AWS recently received significant enhancements with two major updates to Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS): the introduction of ECS Managed Instances and built-in support for Linear and Canary deployment ...Oct 13, 2025·5 min read
tgaleev.comAccelerating Infrastructure as Code Optimization with AI: A Practitioner's Journey with Amazon Q DeveloperIntroduction I've been working with Infrastructure as Code for the better part of eight years—starting with CloudFormation, migrating teams to Terraform, and lately exploring AWS CDK. Over that time, I've seen platforms grow from a handful of templat...Aug 28, 2025·11 min read
tgaleev.comKiro: Bridging the Gap Between AI Prototyping and Production-Ready CodeAs DevOps engineers and Cloud Architects, we have all experienced the excitement of using AI coding assistants to rapidly prototype applications. A few prompts later, you have working code. But then reality hits: deploying to production requires docu...Jul 27, 2025·3 min read
