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Cloud Solutions Architect @ Ciena | Believe in Serverless Community

There are many very useful services on AWS that don't require you to spin up any VMs or setup anything else to use. One thing that is key to using AWS (and other cloud providers) is understanding how billing works and make sure you setup alarms for billing and use tools like Cost Anomaly Detection to help notice unexpected charges. This article from José David Arévalo is a very interesting read about a case where costs for the Amazon Athena service spun out of control for them and some tips on how to avoid something like this happening to you. Amazon Athena is a serverless query engine that allows you to run SQL-like queries on data sitting in S3 buckets. It is a great tool that allows you to look through your data without setting up an actual database. https://lnkd.in/eWB5wHq5

When AWS Athena costs skyrocket: Key lessons and how to avoid them

When AWS Athena costs skyrocket: Key lessons and how to avoid them

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