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AWS Snapshot Cost: 2026 Pricing + 7 Ways to Cut It
AWS Snapshot Cost: 2026 Pricing + 7 Ways to Cut It

By Evgeny Anikiev | July 12, 2026

AWS Snapshot Cost: How Pricing Works and How to Cut It in 2026 Key takeaways Amazon EBS snapshots cost $0.05 per GB-month (Standard tier) — but you're billed only for …

AWS NAT Gateway Cost: 2026 Pricing + 8 Ways to Cut It
AWS NAT Gateway Cost: 2026 Pricing + 8 Ways to Cut It

By Evgeny Anikiev | July 12, 2026

AWS NAT Gateway Cost: The Complete 2026 Guide to Pricing and Cutting Your Bill TL;DR - In US East (N. Virginia), an AWS NAT Gateway costs $0.045/hour (~$32.85/month) plus $0.045 …

AWS EKS now supports Kubernetes version rollbacks
AWS EKS now supports Kubernetes version rollbacks

By Evgeny Anikiev | July 5, 2026

Kubernetes upgrades are no longer a one-way door For years, upgrading a Kubernetes control plane has been irreversible. Once you move from one version to the next, there is no …

Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base launches
Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base launches

By Evgeny Anikiev | June 27, 2026

Most teams building knowledge bases for AI agents spend weeks connecting data sources, tuning chunking strategies, and debugging retrieval accuracy. Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base removes that overhead entirely by …

ECS auto scaling now 4x faster with 20-second metrics
ECS auto scaling now 4x faster with 20-second metrics

By Evgeny Anikiev | June 27, 2026

ECS Auto Scaling Just Got 4x Faster Amazon ECS service auto scaling now detects and responds to load changes in seconds instead of minutes, thanks to new high-resolution metrics support. …

AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control
AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control

By Evgeny Anikiev | June 27, 2026

AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Isolation Without the Infrastructure Headache AWS just announced Lambda MicroVMs, and it solves a real problem developers have been fighting for years. You need to run code …

5 AWS Cost Wins You Can Implement in One Afternoon (With Real Numbers)
5 AWS Cost Wins You Can Implement in One Afternoon (With Real Numbers)

By Evgeny Anikiev | June 22, 2026

AWS cost optimization for startups is where I start every engagement - because it funds everything else. Across 50+ cloud audits, the pattern is identical: a startup spending $8,000/month on …

Claude Fable 5 on Amazon Bedrock now available
Claude Fable 5 on Amazon Bedrock now available

By Evgeny Anikiev | June 14, 2026

  Claude Fable 5 on Amazon Bedrock: Enterprise-grade AI with built-in safeguards   Anthropic just released Claude Fable 5 on Amazon Bedrock, and it's a significant step forward for teams …

Secure AI agents on AWS with three IAM principles
Secure AI agents on AWS with three IAM principles

By Evgeny Anikiev | April 15, 2026

Three Security Principles for AI Agent Access on AWS AI agents reason dynamically, making runtime decisions based on context and learned patterns. Unlike traditional applications with predictable code paths, agents …