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AWS Finally Lets You Find Your Idle NAT Gateways
After years of complaints, AWS Compute Optimizer can identify idle NAT Gateways. At $35/month each plus data processing fees, finding unused gateways just got dramatically easier.
AWS Deprecates Two Dozen Services (Most of Which You’ve Never Heard Of)
AWS has done its quarterly housecleaning / “Googling” of its services, and deprecated what appears at first glance to be a startlingly long list. However, going through them put my mind at ease, and I’m hoping this post can do the same for you.
AWS in 2025: The Stuff You Think You Know That’s Now Wrong
One of the neat things about AWS is that it’s almost twenty years old. One of the unfortunate things about AWS is… that it’s almost twenty years old
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