AWS guides, written by
people who run it every day.
Practitioner content on AWS cost optimisation, security, reliability, serverless, monitoring, networking, CI/CD, databases, and migration. Not marketing copy. Written by the SRE team that operates AWS environments for tech-led businesses.
Guides and articles
Each guide covers one AWS topic from first principles to production-ready practice.
AWS CI/CD and Automation
Shipping safely and often on AWS without a large platform team. A practitioner's guide to CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, automated testing, and patching.
Read guide →The Complete Guide to AWS Cost Optimisation
A practitioner's guide to cutting your AWS bill without slowing your team down. Visibility, accountability, right-sizing, commitments, and storage, in the order that actually works.
Read guide →AWS Database Performance and Cost
Choosing, tuning, and scaling databases on AWS without overspending. A practitioner's guide to engine selection, indexing, caching, and parameter tuning.
Read guide →AWS Migration for Lean Teams
Moving to AWS without a large team or a stalled project. A practitioner's guide to assessment, prioritising workloads, and migrating in the right order.
Read guide →AWS Monitoring and Observability: From CloudWatch to Correlated Insight
CloudWatch tells you a metric crossed a line. It does not tell you why, or what it means for your customer. A practitioner's guide to moving from AWS monitoring to real observability.
Read guide →AWS Networking and Latency Optimisation
Latency is a reliability problem your users feel. A practitioner's guide to diagnosing and fixing AWS network latency: routing, edge delivery, service communication, and cross-region transfer.
Read guide →AWS Reliability, Scaling and Disaster Recovery
How to build AWS systems that stay up and scale cleanly: redundancy that matches your real risk, scaling that fits your traffic, and disaster recovery you have actually tested.
Read guide →AWS Security and Compliance for Regulated Businesses
Security keeps attackers out. Compliance proves it to a regulator. A practitioner's guide to running AWS in heavily regulated markets: identity, controls, and the evidence DORA, NIS2, FCA, PCI DSS and the rest actually demand.
Read guide →AWS Lambda and Serverless Optimisation
A practitioner's guide to running serverless well on AWS: when Lambda is the right tool, how to keep functions fast and cheap, and how to secure serverless data.
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