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Designing AWS architecture is a complex task. It requires careful planning; a deep understanding of cloud services; and the ability to balance performance, cost, security, and scalability. As organizations migrate to the cloud or expand their existing cloud infrastructure, they often face several challenges that can impact the success of their architecture. Once the architecture is deployed, effective cloud monitoring becomes critical to ensure optimal performance and reliability.

Cloud networking costs can escalate due to inefficient routing and limited visibility. Kentik’s cloud visibility and analytics solution helps engineers optimize transit, reduce costs, and improve performance by analyzing AWS Transit Gateways and exploring alternatives like direct peering, storage endpoints, and AWS CloudWAN.

In recent years, many businesses have begun a process known as cloud repatriation. Cloud repatriation is when companies migrate their applications, data, and workloads from the public cloud to on-premises infrastructure. According to IDC, 70-80% of companies are repatriating at least some of their data each year.

Cloud waste occurs when cloud resources are unutilized or underutilized. Resource under-utilization occurs when more resources are procured than are actually needed by virtual machines (VMs) at runtime. Cloud providers continue to charge for these provisioned resources regardless of whether they are used or not, resulting in unchecked expenditure.

A reliable notifications system can send highly scalable, multi-protocol messages — via email, SMS, or apps — all from one platform. For example, you can send timely cost anomaly alerts directly to your developers on Slack to alert them to potential overspending before it becomes a board meeting emergency. So, what does this have to do with Amazon SNS pricing? Let’s start at the beginning to better understand what you’re paying for when you get that AWS SNS bill.

The weather may be frightful in most parts of the U.S. right now, but these cloud cost updates are pretty delightful (if we do say so ourselves). Here’s the top cloud news that dropped in January 2025: Enjoy!

In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to integrate AppSignal with a Flask application running on AWS Fargate. Fargate is a serverless container service that allows you to run Docker containers in the cloud. By integrating AppSignal with AWS Fargate, you can monitor the performance of your Flask application and get insights.

1 year later… Technology leaders face a critical challenge that keeps them up at night: transforming their digital infrastructure without burning through budgets or risking operational disruption. In today’s hyper competitive business landscape, cloud migration isn’t just a technical upgrade, it’s a strategic imperative that can make or break an organization’s future. That’s where experience matters.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers over 200 fully-featured services. AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon Lambda, and the AWS Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) are some of the most critical services you should become familiar with. We’ve previously covered Amazon ECS vs. EKS vs. Fargate for managing and deploying containers. This guide will explain how Amazon EC2, Lambda, ECS, and S3 compare and when you’ll want to use each.