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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.
AWS Cloud
AWS EFS Capabilities and Cost Analysis
Explore the differences and use cases between EFS file systems and storage classes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
AWS Cloud
How to get Free AWS credits!
Experimenting on AWS can be costly. Fortunately, AWS promotional credits are available through various sources.
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.
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.
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.
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