Learning Objectives & Key Takeaways
0 / 4 Completed- Understand AWS & DevOps core architecture and runtime execution model
- Audit real-world latency, throughput benchmarks, and memory footprint
- Implement zero-downtime deployment patterns with resilience guards
- Verify code snippets and architect blueprints against production SLOs
- Cost Optimization Hub consolidates rightsizing, Graviton, and Savings Plans recommendations across every account and region.
- Rightsizing recommendations show unused capacity but never guarantee peak performance, so validate before you shrink instances.
- Graviton migration demands Arm64 validation of runtimes, agents, and native binaries before any production rollout.
- Savings Plans commitments are not refundable credit, so match them to usage that will not move, resize, or disappear.
- S3 lifecycle transitions carry minimum storage durations, so moving objects too early triggers prorated early charges.
The Bill That Didn't Add Up
The finance team at a Bengaluru fintech forwarded an AWS invoice at 9 AM with one line: please explain. The monthly bill had jumped from fourteen lakh rupees to forty one lakh rupees, and the Diwali sale that caused the spike had ended three weeks earlier. Traffic was back to normal, but the spend was not.
The on-call engineer's first instinct was to check for a compromised access key or a runaway Lambda loop, because that is the story everyone has heard before. There was no breach. The fleet of EC2 instances provisioned for the festive peak was still running at the same size, every instance was still paying full on-demand price, and eighty terabytes of transaction logs had been sitting in S3 Standard since 2021.
- Start With Cost Optimization Hub, Not a Spreadsheet
- Rightsizing Without a Pager Going Off
- Graviton Migration Without a 2 AM Rollback
- Choosing a Savings Plan You Won't Regret
- S3 Lifecycle Rules That Don't Backfire
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