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Overview In any dynamic AWS environment, resources are provisioned and decommissioned at a rapid pace. This can lead to an accumulation of “idle” or “zombie” assets—provisioned resources that are no longer serving a business purpose. Among the most common are idle Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) instances, which continue to run and incur costs despite […]

Overview In any AWS environment, the availability of your database is non-negotiable. Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) provides a powerful, managed database solution, but it isn’t immune to a common operational challenge: storage exhaustion. When an RDS instance runs out of disk space, it enters a “storage-full” state, effectively halting write operations and causing significant […]

Overview AWS Network Firewall is a managed service that acts as a critical perimeter defense for your Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), filtering traffic and protecting applications. Given its central role in your cloud architecture, the accidental or malicious deletion of a firewall can have catastrophic consequences, leading to immediate application outages and creating significant security […]

Overview Amazon Neptune is a powerful, fully managed graph database service used for building sophisticated applications that navigate complex, connected datasets. While AWS manages the underlying infrastructure, ensuring high availability is a shared responsibility. A common oversight is confusing the built-in durability of Neptune’s storage layer with the availability of its compute layer. By default, […]

Overview Amazon Neptune is a powerful, fully managed graph database service used for building applications that navigate highly connected datasets, from fraud detection graphs to social networks. As organizations entrust this service with sensitive and mission-critical information, the security of that data becomes a top priority. A foundational pillar of this security is data-at-rest encryption. […]