“Why don’t I see my application logs in CloudWatch?” That was the question bugging Arjun, again. His EC2 instance was running fine, but CloudWatch looked empty. No logs. No memory usage. No granular CPU stats. Until he discovered CloudWatch Agent — the…
“Why do I always feel like I’m debugging in the dark?” Arjun muttered, squinting at a log file buried deep in an EC2 instance. If you’ve ever felt like Arjun—digging through logs manually, running one-off queries, and waiting for insights—you’re…
CloudWatch Metrics is AWS’s built-in monitoring system that helps track the health and performance of your cloud resources. Arjun discovered the power of CloudWatch Metrics one evening when his phone buzzed during dinner. “Dude, I think our backend is down…
Arjun just deployed a new feature to his app.The team was hyped. The users were excited.But something broke… again. “Where do I even see what went wrong?” Arjun muttered. That’s when he met CloudWatch Logs — AWS’s built-in service for collecting and storing logs.…
Amazon CloudWatch is the ultimate monitoring tool for AWS users. In this blog, you’ll learn how Arjun discovered CloudWatch and used it to keep his app RideGo always available. “I wish someone could watch over my app 24/7…”That was Arjun’s…
IAM Role in AWS are essential for managing secure access to AWS resources. When Arjun had just stepped into his new role as a Cloud Security Engineer. His team was building microservices on AWS. On Day 1, a developer pinged him:…
IAM Roles vs Resource-Based Policies is a common comparison AWS users must understand to manage secure, cross-account access. In this beginner-friendly guide, you’ll follow Arjun, a new cloud engineer at a startup, as he learns the difference between these two…
IAM Permission Boundaries are the hidden gem in AWS security that every cloud engineer needs to know — and Arjun is about to discover why. Arjun is a cloud engineer at a fast-growing startup. His manager tells him: “We need…
It was another busy morning, Arjun, the newly minted Cloud Engineer, was sipping his chai and thinking about the growing number of AWS accounts his company had. One account for Dev. One for Prod. Another for Finance. And logging into…
IAM Role vs Resource Policy is one of the most misunderstood topics in AWS cross-account access. Let’s break it down with examples. Arjun, a new cloud engineer at a growing startup, just got a task: “Allow our app in Account A to…
