What moved the cloud this month
Five stories that every cloud engineer and IT leader needs to know — with the cost and performance angle that matters to your business.
QUICK TAKES
More updates worth your attention
Six more AWS announcements this month — summarised in under 30 seconds each.
AWS IAM Identity Center Update
AWS expanded Identity Center with cross-account attribute-based access control, simplifying permission management across large AWS Organizations.
CloudWatch Metrics Insights GA
CloudWatch Metrics Insights is now generally available, allowing SQL-like queries across thousands of metrics for faster root cause analysis.
Aurora PostgreSQL 16 Support
Amazon Aurora now supports PostgreSQL 16, bringing query parallelism improvements, better logical replication, and new developer-friendly SQL features.
CloudFront KeyValueStore GA
CloudFront's KeyValueStore is now GA, enabling edge functions to read configuration data without origin round-trips — cutting latency by up to 50%.
GuardDuty Malware Protection for S3
GuardDuty now scans objects uploaded to S3 for malware in real time, helping teams meet compliance requirements without custom scanning pipelines.
ECS Fargate Ephemeral Storage Bump
AWS increased Fargate ephemeral storage to 200GB, removing a common blocker for data-processing containers that previously required EFS workarounds.
THIS MONTH'S TIPS
3 things to implement this week
Practical, actionable advice from the Avertech cloud team.
Use Savings Plans over Reserved Instances
Compute Savings Plans now offer the same discounts as Reserved Instances but with far more flexibility across instance types and regions. If you haven't migrated yet, now is the time.
Enable S3 Intelligent-Tiering by default
For any bucket with unpredictable access patterns, S3 Intelligent-Tiering automatically moves objects to cheaper storage tiers. It pays for itself at over 128KB object sizes.
Tag everything from day one
Cost allocation tags are the single most impactful change you can make for cloud governance. Use a consistent tagging policy with Environment, Team, Project, and CostCenter at minimum.
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