AWS monitoring and alerts for small teams
If your customers tell you about an outage before your alerts do, the alerts are not doing their job. A small CloudWatch, SNS and Slack setup fixes that without buying another tool.
Add a budget alert so the first warning about cost is not the invoice, and get scheduled checks right so they run when you think they do.
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How to reduce your AWS bill: 3 quick wins that break nothing
Reduce AWS costs without touching your app: delete idle resources that still bill you, let old data expire, and set a budget alert before the invoice.
EventBridge cron expressions vs cron: the 6-field trap
An EventBridge cron expression has 6 fields, a required question mark and different day numbers. How it differs from cron, CronJobs and GitHub Actions.
Tools and checklists
- Cron expression explainerCheck an EventBridge schedule before you deploy it.
- Cron expression generatorWrite an EventBridge or Scheduler expression from a plain schedule.
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Ongoing monitoring and fixes, in the services list.
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