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AWS reliability and incident response

Know when you're down before customers do, health checks, alarms, SLOs, and recovery paths you've tested.

September 19, 20267 min read

CloudWatch defaults exist but nobody reads the alarms

AWS already emits metrics and logs. The gap is routing the right signals to a human. Metrics, alarms, logs, and canaries, in the order you should build them.

AWS reliability and incident response
AWS
CloudWatch
DevOps
Reliability

September 3, 20265 min read

Meet a 98% uptime SLA on AWS, and beat it

What 98% uptime really means, and the AWS building blocks that get you there. Managed multi-AZ services, health checks, alarms, and a recovery plan you have tested.

AWS reliability and incident response
AWS
Reliability
Serverless
DevOps

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