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S3
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Oct 7, 2026
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SL#114 - AWS Services (11/120) - Amazon S3: Strong Consistency, Eleven Nines, and the Request Bill Nobody Models
The definition, the cost model, the limits, and a versioned bucket with lifecycle that you build and cost out to the cent.
Tutorial
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Oct 5, 2026
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11 min read
SL#112 - AWS Services (9/120) - AWS Elastic Beanstalk: The Original PaaS in 2026, What It Still Does Well, and the Honest Way Out
Elastic Beanstalk is a deployment engine that wraps EC2, an Auto Scaling group and a load balancer in one object. This reference covers the model, the limits, and a runnable build with a rolling deploy and a blue/green swap.
Tutorial
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Oct 4, 2026
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11 min read
SL#111 - AWS Services (8/120) - Amazon Lightsail: The Fixed-Price On-Ramp, and the Day You Migrate Out
When Lightsail is the right answer, when it is a trap you will migrate out of, and a script that builds a server, measures its CPU budget, and proves you can leave.
Tutorial
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Oct 3, 2026
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10 min read
SL#109 - AWS Services (7/120) - AWS App Runner: Closed to New Customers, and the ECS Express Mode Migration
App Runner no longer accepts new customers. What it was, what replaced it, what the bill looks like, and a working migration to ECS Express Mode you can run for about a dime.
Tutorial
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Oct 2, 2026
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9 min read
SL#108 - AWS Services (6/120) - AWS Batch: Queues, Compute Environments, and the Array Job That Does the Fan-Out
AWS Batch is a job queue bolted to a capacity manager. The definition, the cost model, the limits, and a 20-way array job on Fargate that costs about a cent.
Tutorial
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Oct 1, 2026
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11 min read
SL#107 - AWS Services (5/120) - AWS Fargate: Serverless Containers and the Per-Task Pricing Math
Fargate is not a cheaper or simpler EC2. It is a different billing unit, one task at a time. This article gives you the model, the real prices, and a script that runs the same container on x86, ARM and Spot and tells you what each run cost.
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Sep 30, 2026
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11 min read
SL#106 - AWS Services (4/120) - Amazon EKS: Managed Kubernetes and the Data Plane It Doesn't Manage
EKS sells you a managed control plane for $0.10/hr. What 'managed' excludes - the data plane - is the story. We build an Auto Mode cluster, wire a workload with Pod Identity, and cost every piece.