May 4 · 7 min read · Originally published on graycloudarch.com. The morning after go-live, the first thing I looked at was CPU. One of the two delivery services was sitting at 99.8% average utilization across 9 tasks. P50 latency: 1,010ms. We'd launched deliberately wit...
Join discussionApr 21 · 8 min read · Running Django and Celery as systemd services on EC2 and tired of SSH-ing in to debug? Here's the exact setup I used to ship logs to CloudWatch Logs for free, without touching a single production serv
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Mar 29 · 3 min read · In my current project, we had multiple Windows EC2 servers running applications in AWS. Logs were scattered across system logs, security logs, user activity logs, and application logs. Additionally, t
Join discussionMar 12 · 5 min read · When AWS introduced AWS DevOps Agent, I was less interested in feature lists and more interested in one practical question. Can it actually reduce investigation time during real production-style failu
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Mar 12 · 5 min read · One of the most common ways developers deploy applications to AWS using GitHub Actions looks like this: Create an IAM User Generate an Access Key and Secret Key Store them inside GitHub Secrets Ho
Join discussionFeb 9 · 3 min read · In the high-stakes world of digital banking, downtime is measured in lost revenue and eroded customer trust. As part of our Banking Infrastructure on Cloud series, this post dives into Chaos Engineering—the discipline of experimenting on a software s...
Join discussionFeb 7 · 12 min read · Introduction It's midnight, and your application is down. You scramble to your laptop, SSH into servers, tail logs, check CPU, memory, disk usage across dozens of instances. Grep through gigabytes of logs trying to find the error. Check if it's the d...
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Feb 5 · 3 min read · 📌 Objective The goal of this hands-on lab is to configure Amazon CloudWatch Custom Metrics for an EC2 instance.Since AWS does not provide RAM and disk utilization metrics by default, we will use the CloudWatch Agent to collect and publish these cust...
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Feb 4 · 26 min read · Most "AWS operational best practices" content gives you a nicely formatted summary of the Well-Architected Framework's design principles. You could have read that in the AWS docs. What engineering teams actually need is a map from those principles to...
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