Anna Pastushko

🐾Serverless cost pitfalls and how to avoid them🐾 🤓  Serverless services like AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, and SQS are often praised for being cost-effective — you pay only for what you use, and there’s no infrastructure to manage. But in practice, I’ve see...

🤓Serverless services like AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, and SQS are often praised for being cost-effective — you pay only for what you use, and there’s no infrastructure to manage. But in practice, I’ve seen teams misuse these tools and end up surprised by unexpectedly high bills.

🐾Cost optimization for GenAI workloads🐾 🤓 Over the past few months, I’ve received many questions about cost optimization for Generative AI workloads. While it may seem like GenAI requires an entirely new strategy, the truth is that most of ...

🤓Over the past few months, I’ve received many questions about cost optimization for Generative AI workloads. While it may seem like GenAI requires an entirely new strategy, the truth is that most of the well-known AWS cost optimization techniques apply here just as well.

🐾Should you use API Gateway or ALB for your API?🐾 🤓 In almost every project, eventually you will ask: “Should I use API Gateway or Application Load Balancer to expose my API?”. And it’s a great question — so I decided to make a detailed breakdown of ...

🤓In almost every project, eventually you will ask: “Should I use API Gateway or Application Load Balancer to expose my API?”. And it’s a great question — so I decided to make a detailed breakdown of when you want to use each of them.

🐾Lambda@Edge vs. CloudFront Functions🐾 🤓 When thinking about edge computing for URL redirects and HTTP header manipulation, which service comes to mind first? Surprisingly, I often hear Lambda@Edge mentioned more than CloudFront Functions,...

🤓When thinking about edge computing for URL redirects and HTTP header manipulation, which service comes to mind first? Surprisingly, I often hear Lambda@Edge mentioned more than CloudFront Functions, despite the latter being a powerful tool that, in my experience, covers 70% of common use cases.

MLOps setup on AWS with SageMaker Step-by-step guide for production ready MLOps setup with SageMaker

💡Excited to share my insights on building effective MLOps setups on AWS, drawing from years of implementation experience across diverse client use cases. Building or reworking your MLOps setup? I'd love to hear your thoughts on my approach.

🐾EMR Serverless: When it makes sense and when it doesn't 🐾 🤓 While suggesting someone to use Serverless, the first thing I most frequently hear in response is: “Oh, it is sooo expensive, I think we can manage it by ourselves”. Especially, when we are talking ...

🤓While suggesting someone to use Serverless, the first thing I most frequently hear in response is: “Oh, it is sooo expensive, I think we can manage it by ourselves”. Especially, when we are talking about EMR Serverless. But believe me, it can be cheaper than EMR on EC2 or EKS.

GitHub - gruntwork-io/cloud-nuke: A tool for cleaning up your cloud accounts by nuking (deleting) all resources within it A tool for cleaning up your cloud accounts by nuking (deleting) all resources within it - gruntwork-io/cloud-nuke

Hey cloud folks👋 Just wanted to share a small win — I recently contributed to cloud-nuke, an awesome tool that saves me tons of time cleaning up AWS resources!
Now you can delete SageMaker Domain with all related resources, Endpoints, and Endpoint configurations 🥳

🐾CloudWatch: More than logs and metrics 🐾 🤓 What comes into your mind when you think about CloudWatch? Most of you would instantly think about logging and monitoring with metrics. But CloudWatch has other brilliant features besides that, and ...

🤓What comes into your mind when you think about CloudWatch? Most of you would instantly think about logging and monitoring with metrics. But CloudWatch has other brilliant features besides that, and canaries is one of them.

🐾S3 Object Lambda: Transform data without extra infrastructure🐾 🤓 Do you have an application which reads data from S3, but needs to transform it before providing it to the end user? Have you heard about S3 Object Lambda? When AWS first introduced S3 Object Lambda ...

🤓 Do you have an application which reads data from S3, but needs to transform it before providing it to the end user?
When AWS first introduced S3 Object Lambda in 2021, it flew under the radar for many developers — I rarely meet someone who knows about this feature, yet it solves many problems.

🐾Lambda cache for Secrets Manager and Parameter Store🐾 🤓 Do you use secrets from Secrets Manager or parameters from Parameter Store in your Lambda functions? If you answer yes, do you use Secrets Lambda Extension to cache retrieved values? This post is fo...

🤓 Do you use secrets from Secrets Manager or parameters from Parameter Store in your Lambda functions? If you answer yes, do you use Secrets Lambda Extension to cache retrieved values? This post is for the ones who still don’t use it😉

🐾Gateway vs Interface Endpoints 🐾 🤓When designing AWS workloads, sometimes you need a secure way to connect to AWS services without traversing the public internet. Gateway and Interface endpoints are the solution, but do you know whic...

🤓 When designing AWS workloads, sometimes you need a secure way to connect to AWS services without traversing the public internet. Gateway and Interface endpoints are the solution, but do you know which one to choose in your use case?

🐾Lambda as ML inference: Why, How, and Limitations🐾 🤓 Machine learning inference doesn't always require complex infrastructure. While AWS SageMaker is a popular choice, sometimes simpler solutions can be more effective. You're probably already using AW...

🤓 Machine learning inference doesn't always require complex infrastructure. While AWS SageMaker is a popular choice, sometimes simpler solutions can be more effective. You're probably already using AWS Lambda for MLOps automation. But did you know it can also serve ML models?

🐾Common overlooks while designing workloads🐾 🤓 When starting a new project or designing a new feature, developers typically focus on the core services that will perform the main tasks. However, there are numerous additional considerations that u...

🤓 When starting a new project or designing a new feature, developers typically focus on the core services that will perform the main tasks. However, there are numerous additional considerations that underpin every production workload.

🐾Security group rules for SageMaker🐾 🤓 When deploying SageMaker Studio in production, most organizations opt for VPC-only mode to enhance security. And, I've found that 80% of SageMaker Studio their issues are network-related, with secur...

🤓 When deploying SageMaker Studio in production, most organizations opt for VPC-only mode to enhance security. And, I've found that 80% of SageMaker Studio their issues are network-related, with security group configurations being the primary challenge.

🐾EC2 Auto Scaling: most common mistakes I've seen 🐾 🤓 EC2 Auto Scaling is a widely used feature in many architectures. It may seem like a simple component that can be easily configured. However, through my experience working with different clients, I’v...

🤓 EC2 Auto Scaling is a widely used feature in many architectures. It may seem like a simple component that can be easily configured. However, mistakes can still happen. Today, I’d like to share some of the most common mistakes I’ve encountered while working with clients.

🐾IAM Identity Center🐾 🤓 Recently, I got several questions about when to use the IAM Identity Center, which features it has, and what the difference is between usage in small and large companies.

🐾IAM Identity Center🐾

🤓 Recently, I got several questions about when to use the IAM Identity Center, which features it has, and what the difference is between usage in small and large companies. Let’s explore these aspects in detail.

🐾Aurora Limitless vs Serverless v2🐾 🤓 Have you heard about Amazon Aurora Limitless? How it is different from Aurora Serverless v2 and when to use each of them? Let’s explore the difference together.

🐾Aurora Limitless vs Serverless v2🐾

🤓 Have you heard about Amazon Aurora Limitless? How it is different from Aurora Serverless v2 and when to use each of them? Let’s explore the difference together.

🐾MLOps: SageMaker vs Databricks on AWS🐾 🤓 Previously, I wrote a post about the difference between MLOps concepts in SageMaker and Databricks, but so many changes have occurred since then: release of MLflow for SageMaker Studio, the deprecat...

🐾MLOps: SageMaker vs Databricks on AWS🐾

Many things have changed since my last post on Databricks and SageMaker MLOps difference: MLflow for SageMaker, CodeCommit deprecation, and updates to MLflow's model approval flow. Time for a new comparison post!

My life hack for easier icon searching:

🔹 Download the file with all icons organized by category: drive.google.com/file/d/1y_SG...
🔹 Open Excalidraw page in a private browser window
🔹 Upload file
🔹 Press F4 to search by service name, or click the search icon next to the libraries

🎉 New AWS icons for Excalidraw library 🎉

✨ Library has expanded — now it consists of 249 icons (you can suggest which icon should be 250th 😉)
✨ Icons are updated to match AWS’s 2024 design.