JSJayesh Sojitrainjayesh-sojitra.hashnode.dev·1h ago · 4 min readAuto Scaling Groups Explained With a Real ExampleAn Auto Scaling Group (ASG) automatically adjusts the number of EC2 instances running your application based on demand. The concept is simple; the actual configuration decisions are where teams either00
JSJayesh Sojitrainjayesh-sojitra.hashnode.dev·19h ago · 4 min read ALB vs NLB: Which Load Balancer Do You Actually NeedAWS offers multiple load balancer types, and the ALB vs NLB decision trips people up because both "balance load" — but they operate at genuinely different layers of the network stack, which changes wh00
JSJayesh Sojitrainjayesh-sojitra.hashnode.dev·1d ago · 4 min readCloudWatch Explained: Metrics, Logs, and AlarmsCloudWatch is AWS's monitoring service, but "monitoring" covers three genuinely different things — metrics, logs, and alarms — that work together but solve different problems. Confusing them is why te00
JSJayesh Sojitrainjayesh-sojitra.hashnode.dev·2d ago · 4 min readRDS vs Self-Managed Database on EC2: When to Use EachRunning a database on AWS means choosing between RDS (a managed service) and installing a database engine yourself on an EC2 instance. The decision gets treated as obvious, but it's worth understandin00
JSJayesh Sojitrainjayesh-sojitra.hashnode.dev·5d ago · 4 min read Security Groups vs NACLs: What's the Real DifferenceBoth Security Groups and Network ACLs (NACLs) control what network traffic is allowed into and out of your AWS resources. The confusion is understandable — they do overlapping jobs. But they work at d01I
JSJayesh Sojitrainjayesh-sojitra.hashnode.dev·6d ago · 4 min read S3 Storage Classes: Which One Actually Saves You MoneyS3 pricing isn't one flat rate — it's a set of storage classes, each trading retrieval speed and cost against storage cost. Picking the wrong one (or never picking at all) is one of the most common so03I
JSJayesh Sojitrainjayesh-sojitra.hashnode.dev·6d ago · 4 min readIAM Explained: Users, Roles, and Policies Without the ConfusionIAM (Identity and Access Management) controls every single permission in your AWS account — which makes it foundational, but also means getting the core vocabulary wrong causes confusion that compound01I
JSJayesh Sojitrainjayesh-sojitra.hashnode.dev·Sep 25 · 3 min readTop 10 AWS Services You Should KnowAWS's sheer size is intimidating — the console alone lists services most teams will never touch. In practice, day-to-day development and production support usually revolves around a small, consistent 00
JSJayesh Sojitrainjayesh-sojitra.hashnode.dev·Sep 25 · 3 min readEC2 Explained Simply: The Service Everyone Uses FirstEC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) is a virtual server — but that one-line definition skips the parts that actually matter for using it well day to day. What you're actually choosing when you launch an insta00
JSJayesh Sojitrainjayesh-sojitra.hashnode.dev·Sep 17 · 4 min read Building Forms That Don't Make Users Hate YouForms get a disproportionate amount of user frustration for how "simple" they seem technically. The actual problem is rarely the validation rules themselves — it's when and how those rules get communi00
