Our ECS worker was healthy, not crashing, not stuck — yet autoscaling killed it right as it picked up a new job. The fix? Inverting the ECS Task Protection lifecycle so the worker is protected whenever it’s ready to accept work, not just while processing.
Every production system needs a cache, and most of us run Redis on ElastiCache. By switching the engine to Valkey — a one-line CDK change — we saved 20% on our caching bill. Here’s the full story with real numbers.
Docker Hub rate limits can break your CI/CD pipeline. Discover how ECR pull-through cache acts as a smart middle layer between your builds and Docker Hub, solving rate limits, speeding up builds, and reducing costs.
We reduced EFS costs by 70% by moving temporary file operations to ephemeral storage. Everything looked perfect — until production started acting strange. Here’s what went wrong, why it happened, and how we built a proper decoupled architecture following AWS Well-Architected principles.
Most AWS cost optimization advice focuses on resizing infrastructure. But in this real production case, scaling wasn’t the problem — logic was. Here’s how understanding versioned Redis keys reduced our AWS bill by 50% without changing traffic or load.
Many businesses want a simple way to centralize and search logs. AWS OpenSearch Serverless looks perfect - no cluster management, automatic scaling. We thought the same. Three months later, we migrated away. Here’s why serverless doesn’t always mean cost-effective.
When building production-grade enterprise solutions on AWS, we try to follow all the best practices. But what happens when CDK itself creates unexpected issues? A deep dive into a real-world problem with CloudFront caching and CDK configuration.