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2026-04-28Lambda Managed Instances: When Dedicated EC2 Pays Off
AWS Lambda Managed Instances pairs EC2 control with serverless ops. The pricing math, multi-concurrency model, and when it beats Provisioned Concurrency.
12 min
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Everything Refactix covers on Amazon Web Services: designing new systems, improving and fixing the ones you already run, and the everyday realities of compute, data, networking, cost, and reliability. Practical, production-grounded guidance across the breadth of the platform, not any single service.
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Intermediate
2025-09-19Cutting AWS Lambda cold starts to under 100ms
How to get AWS Lambda cold starts under 100ms with SnapStart, smarter runtime choices, smaller packages, and provisioned concurrency without blowing the budget.
14 min
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Intermediate
2025-09-16ECS Fargate vs EKS: How I Decide Between Them in 2025
The cost math, migration notes, and decision framework I use when picking ECS Fargate or EKS for a workload on AWS.
15 min
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Beginner
2025-08-12AWS Cost Anomaly Detection: Catching Bill Spikes Before They Hit
Catch unexpected AWS spend before it hits the bill with AWS Cost Anomaly Detection. How to set up monitors, alerts, and tagging that make the reports actually useful.
8 min
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Advanced
2025-07-22Zero Downtime Deployments: A Pipeline That Actually Holds Up
Blue-green deployments, rolling updates, and automated rollback. A working deployment pipeline that lets you ship to production without a maintenance window.
13 min
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