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AWS Cost Allocation Tags: Best Practices, Challenges and Tools

Discover how AWS Cost Allocation Tags improve cloud cost visibility, enhance tag compliance, and optimize resource utilization. Learn challenges, best practices, and how CloudYali simplifies tagging with standardization tools and detailed insights to streamline cost management.
December 12, 2024
5 min read
AWS Cloud

AWS EFS Capabilities and Cost Analysis

Explore the differences and use cases between EFS file systems and storage classes.
Nishant Thorat
November 23, 2024
5 min read
Cloud FinOps

Understanding Amazon Bedrock: Components, Pricing and Cost Optimization Strategies

Amazon Bedrock is essential for the development of generative AI applications. It is important to understand its fundamental components, factors affecting costs, and strategies for cost optimization.
Nishant Thorat
November 15, 2024
5 min read
Cloud FinOps

CloudYali AI Cost Tracking: Get Full Visibility into Your AI Spending

Gain full visibility into your AI expenses with CloudYali. Our platform offers a clear cost overview, detailed usage analytics, cross-provider tracking, and team-level breakdowns, empowering you to manage and optimize AI spending efficiently. Sign up today to unlock actionable insights and maximize your cloud cost control.
Nishant Thorat
November 15, 2024
5 min read
Cloud FinOps

Introducing CloudYali Budget Alerts: Smart Cost Control for Your Multi-Cloud Infrastructure

CloudYali Budget Alerts makes it easy to manage cloud costs across multi-cloud infrastructures. With flexible budgets, advanced filters, and smart alerts, users can track spending in real-time across AWS and GCP. Whether you need a unified budget for multiple accounts, environment-specific budgets, or departmental cost allocation, CloudYali’s tools provide visibility and control to prevent budget overruns. Getting started is simple: set up your first budget to monitor critical expenses, then expand as needed. CloudYali Budget Alerts ensures you stay informed and in control of cloud spending, helping to eliminate waste and improve financial accountability.
December 21, 2024
5 min read
Cloud FinOps

AWS Graviton: Unlocking Performance and Cost Efficiency in the Cloud

AWS Graviton processors are transforming cloud workloads by providing exceptional cost optimization, enhanced performance, and contributing to sustainability goals. Built on ARM architecture, Graviton processors deliver a better price-performance ratio compared to traditional x86 processors, resulting in significant cost savings for compute-intensive, general-purpose, and database workloads.
Nishant Thorat
October 17, 2024
5 min read
AWS IAM

[Part 1] The Least Privilege Principle and IAM in AWS

The principle of least privilege (PoLP) is easier to understand until you put it into practice. In this series, we will discuss PoLP, how to set up accounts and guardrails, what tools to use, what process to follow, what technical and managerial challenges you may encounter, how to tackle them, and so on.
Nishant Thorat
November 11, 2024
5 min read
User Access Management

Streamlining AWS Access for Growing Startups

As your startup scales on AWS, managing access control becomes crucial. This blog post provides a roadmap for securing your cloud environment. You'll learn about the limitations of basic IAM users, the benefits of centralized identity management, and the capabilities of AWS IAM Identity Center with Just-In-Time access. By the end, you'll have a clear strategy to secure your AWS environment while maintaining agility.
Nishant Thorat
November 11, 2024
5 min read
AWS Cloud

Key Considerations for Securing AWS Infrastructure - 101

Harsh Khajgiwale
February 10, 2024
5 min read
User Access Management

Do we need Just-In-Time (JIT) Access Control for Cloud?

Modern companies implement Just-In-Time (JIT) access management systems with an automated system to minimise the attack surface and realise the Zero Trust.
Nishant Thorat
November 15, 2024
5 min read
AWS Cloud

The Power of AWS Session Manager (SSM) with EC2 Instances

AWS Community Builder Damien Burk discusses the benefits of AWS Systems Manager Session Manager (SSM) with EC2 instance in a step-by-step approach.
Damien Burks
November 11, 2024
5 min read
AWS Cloud

AWS Tagging evolution: From simple labels to cost allocation and standardization

From mere labelling in 2010 to the sophisticated tagging services of today, AWS tagging has seen a rapid evolution. Each of these updates has provided users with additional functionality, greater control over their resources, and more effective monitoring, auditing, and management of their AWS infrastructure.
Nishant Thorat
November 15, 2024
5 min read
AWS Cloud

CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark v2.0 - Securing AWS cloud resources

Use latest CIS AWS Foundations benchmark for securing AWS cloud resources. Understand what has changed in this version since CIS AWS v1.5.0
CloudYali Team
February 10, 2024
5 min read
Product

How to onboard any number of AWS member accounts with CloudFormation StackSet

CloudFormation StackSet allows for automated onboarding of any number of member accounts, while also providing an exceptional user experience. By leveraging this technology, CloudYali ensures efficient and seamless account management for our valued users.
CloudYali Team
February 10, 2024
5 min read
AWS Cloud

AWS S3 Bucket Creation Date Discrepancy in master and other regions

AWS S3 bucket creation date may be reported differently in different regions. To get the S3 bucket creation date correctly call list api in us-east-1.
Nishant Thorat
February 11, 2024
5 min read
AWS IAM

IAM User Monitoring at scale

Monitoring IAM user activities and tracking user access to specific regions and services is vital for maintaining the security of your AWS environment. By leveraging CloudYali, you can proactively detect suspicious behavior, enforce least privilege, and ensure compliance with confidence. Stay in control of your AWS security and protect your valuable resources.
CloudYali Team
November 11, 2024
5 min read
AWS IAM

How to Monitor AWS Root Users at Scale: Best Practices

As organizations scale and adopt multi-account environments,monitoring a large number of IAM users becomes increasingly challenging. CloudYali provides ready to use IAM monitoring to help cloud teams monitor their IAM landscape with east and no efforts.
CloudYali Team
November 15, 2024
5 min read
AWS IAM

10 Steps to Improve Your AWS IAM Hygiene and Keep Your Cloud Secure

Improving your AWS IAM hygiene is critical in protecting your cloud resources and data. By following these 10 steps, you can establish a robust security framework that protects your business from cyber threats. From reviewing your IAM policies to enabling MFA and monitoring your IAM activity, each step is designed to help you maintain the security and integrity of your AWS account.
Nishant Thorat
November 15, 2024
5 min read
AWS Cloud

Gain Visibility and Control with Cloud Asset Inventory

Discover how to gain complete visibility and control over your cloud assets with our comprehensive guide to cloud asset inventory.
CloudYali Team
February 10, 2024
5 min read
AWS Cloud

Demystifying AWS PrivateLink and VPC Endpoint Services: Everything You Need to Know

Learn about the technical details of AWS PrivateLink and VPC Endpoint services, and how they can improve your network security and performance.
Nishant Thorat
November 15, 2024
5 min read
AWS Cloud

AWS Services Availability Tool - discover all AWS service regions with ease.

Introducing the AWS Services Availability: the ultimate UI tool to discover all AWS service regions with ease. Find all the regions a service is hosted and all active AWS services in just a few clicks!
CloudYali Team
February 10, 2024
5 min read
AWS Cloud

Understanding Instance MetaData Service (IMDS)

Instance metadata service (IMDS) provides sensitive information. Understand IMDSv1 weakness and how IMDSv2 improves security. Identify IMDSv1 enabled instances across your cloud.
Nishant Thorat
November 15, 2024
5 min read
AWS Cloud

Finding unencrypted AWS EBS Volumes at scale

Unencrypted EBS volumes can become a critical security issue. Make sure all EBS volumes which may contain sensitive information are encrypted. CloudYali makes it super easy to find the unencrypted EBS volumes from all regions and AWS accounts.
CloudYali Team
February 10, 2024
5 min read
AWS Cloud

How to find all regions an AWS Service is available

Not all AWS services are available in all AWS regions. Discover different ways you can find all AWS regions any AWS services are available.
Nishant Thorat
February 11, 2024
5 min read
AWS Cloud

How to get Free AWS credits!

Experimenting on AWS can be costly. Fortunately, AWS promotional credits are available through various sources.
CloudYali Team
February 10, 2024
5 min read
AWS Cloud

AWS VPC: Security Group vs NACL

AWS Security Group and Network Access Control List (NACL) work together to protect AWS Resources in a VPC. Understanding the differences between these is important for greatly improving the security of AWS Resources.
February 10, 2024
5 min read
Product

CloudYali Launches Global AWS Tag Search

CloudYali now enables cloud teams to search for AWS resources across accounts and regions with Global AWS Tag Search. This new feature simplifies the cloud management using AWS tags.
CloudYali Team
November 15, 2024
5 min read
AWS Cloud

AWS Config: Know before you take a plunge!

Nishant Thorat
February 10, 2024
5 min read
AWS IAM

The Absolute minimum every developer must know about AWS security!

The AWS Identity and Access Management is the fabric that connects almost everything in the AWS Cloud ecosystem. Understanding the IAM model properly is key to a successful cloud implementation.
Nishant Thorat
February 11, 2024
5 min read

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