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AWS
2025-11-22|8 min read

How to Set Up AWS Cost Explorer and Budgets for Teams

Learn how to set up AWS Cost Explorer and Budgets to track cloud spending, prevent cost overruns, and keep your team informed about AWS expenses.

DevOps
2025-11-17|12 min read

Deployment Strategies: Blue-Green, Canary, and Rolling Deployments Explained

Learn how to deploy applications safely using blue-green, canary, and rolling deployment strategies. Understand the theory, trade-offs, and decision-making behind each approach.

Terraform
2025-06-20|5 min read

How to Use the AWS account_id Variable in Terraform

Learn how to dynamically retrieve and use the AWS account_id variable in Terraform for your configurations.

Terraform
2025-01-28|8 min read

How to Configure ECS Fargate Task Execution Roles With Terraform

Learn how to properly set up IAM execution roles for ECS Fargate task definitions in Terraform, including permissions for ECR, CloudWatch Logs, and Secrets Manager.

Terraform
2025-01-12|8 min read

How to Fix Terraform Not Deploying API Gateway Stage

Learn why Terraform might not deploy your AWS API Gateway stage and how to properly configure deployments with automatic triggering on configuration changes.

Terraform
2025-01-05|9 min read

How to Apply SQL Scripts to RDS Databases With Terraform

Learn different approaches for running SQL scripts and migrations against RDS databases during Terraform deployment, including provisioners, external tools, and dedicated migration resources.

AWS
2025-01-02|5 min read

Correct way to attach AWS managed policies to a role?

Learn how to correctly attach AWS managed policies to an IAM role using the AWS Management Console, CLI, or Terraform.

Terraform
2024-12-18|8 min read

How to Configure CloudWatch Logs Subscription Filter to Lambda With Terraform

Learn how to stream CloudWatch Logs to a Lambda function using Terraform, including proper permissions and error handling.

Terraform
2024-12-15|6 min read

Terraform: Error Creating IAM Role. MalformedPolicyDocument: Has Prohibited Field Resource

Learn how to resolve the 'MalformedPolicyDocument: Has prohibited field Resource' error when creating an IAM role in Terraform.

AWS
2024-12-01|8 min read

What Does AssumeRole: Service: ec2 Do?

Understand the role of AssumeRole with Service: ec2 in AWS IAM policies and how it integrates with Terraform.

Cloud
2024-11-20|10 min read

How We Reduced Our AWS Bill by 73% While Actually Improving Performance

The counterintuitive strategies we used to slash cloud costs while actually improving application performance.

AWS
2024-11-20|7 min read

How to Retrieve a Secret in Terraform from AWS Secret Manager

Learn how to securely retrieve secrets from AWS Secret Manager using Terraform in your infrastructure as code workflows.

AWS
2024-11-10|6 min read

AWS ASG Launch Templates vs Launch Configurations

Understand the key differences between AWS Auto Scaling Group Launch Templates and Launch Configurations to make informed decisions for your infrastructure.

Terraform
2024-11-05|6 min read

How to Attach Multiple IAM Policies to IAM Roles Using Terraform

Learn how to attach multiple IAM policies to a single IAM role in Terraform to manage permissions effectively.

AWS
2024-10-30|7 min read

How to Nuke All AWS Resources in an AWS Account

Learn how to safely and efficiently delete all resources in an AWS account using tools like AWS CLI and Terraform.

Terraform
2024-10-23|7 min read

Determining Minimum AWS Permissions for Terraform Configurations

Learn how to identify the minimum AWS permissions required for your Terraform configurations to enhance security and compliance.

Terraform
2024-10-20|6 min read

Terraform + DynamoDB: All Attributes Must Be Indexed

Learn how to handle the 'all attributes must be indexed' requirement in DynamoDB when using Terraform.

Terraform
2024-09-15|9 min read

How to Fix Common Terraform S3 Backend Configuration Errors

Learn how to troubleshoot and resolve common errors when configuring Terraform's S3 backend, from access denied issues to state locking problems.

FinOps
2024-08-22|12 min read

What Is FinOps? A Beginner's Guide to Cloud Cost Management

Discover how FinOps transforms chaotic cloud spending into strategic financial operations, bringing teams together to optimize costs while maintaining innovation speed.

Terraform
2024-08-10|5 min read

How to Create a Folder in an AWS S3 Bucket Using Terraform

Learn how to create a folder in an AWS S3 bucket using Terraform by leveraging the `aws_s3_object` resource.

AWS
2024-07-15|5 min read

The provided execution role does not have permissions to call DescribeNetworkInterfaces on EC2

Learn how to resolve the 'execution role does not have permissions to call DescribeNetworkInterfaces' error in AWS EC2.