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I Was Paying $150/Month for a NAT Gateway I Didn’t Need

The AWS bill arrived and I stared at it for a full minute.

April 2, 2026Medium

AWS Wants You to Use SSM. My Team Uses SSH. Here Is Why.

Every AWS blog post says the same thing. Ditch the bastion host. Disable port 22. Use SSM Session Manager. It is more secure, it is zero trust, it is the modern way.

March 29, 2026Medium

My S3 Bill Had a Line Item Called “Data Transfer Out.” I Got Rid of It.

I run a Laravel app that serves user-uploaded files. Product images, documents, exported PDFs. Nothing exotic. The kind of storage setup every SaaS developer builds and then slowly stops thinking a...

March 27, 2026Medium

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