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Most Bedrock projects start with discussing models, but that's rarely the right starting point. Data locality, structure, and ingestion set the critical foundation. Full breakdown on best data ingestion practices ➡️ stratus10.com/blog/amazon-be…
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AWS accounts multiply fast, and EC2 AMIs pile up right along with them. Most teams can't say who owns an image, when it should retire, or which version is approved. A few practices fix that 🧵
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🧟 Attach a retirement policy to each AMI the moment it ships. Don't wait for cleanup day.
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CVSS score tells you how bad a bug could be, not if it's reachable. Fix by exposure, assign an owner, and require proof before closing the ticket. 👉 kaloscloud.io/blog/vulnerabi… How do you prioritize fixes?
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Myth: your biggest storage cost is the data you use most. Reality: ~80% of corporate data goes untouched for years, sitting in the priciest tier by default. 18 leaders on finding it. Savings: 25-70%. stratus10.com/blog/cloud-sto…
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Automation debt behaves like tech debt: the longer you wait, the more it costs to fix. We asked 13 engineering leaders what automation actually saved them time. The best automations were the targeted ones. Full breakdown 👉 stratus10.com/blog/cloud-aut…
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Cloud cost optimization isn't cost-cutting - it's an engineering discipline. Lean teams win with visibility, ownership & automation, not headcount. Full breakdown: stratus10.com/blog/cloud-cos… #FinOps
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We partnered with Kinectify, an anti-money laundering (AML) software provider, to build a fully automated Terraform CI/CD pipeline on Azure with GitHub Actions. Check out the case study 👉 stratus10.com/case-studies/t…
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12 of 16 security experts we surveyed named the same overlooked cloud risk. Not firewalls, not open buckets. IAM. Here's the breakdown 🧵
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Fix: compare permissions against 90 days of real API calls. Most teams find a third of it unused.
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There's an order of operations to getting #AWS under control. MFA on root → GuardDuty/Security Hub → Cost Explorer/Compute Optimizer → Config/CloudTrail → Trusted Advisor What would you add? #FinOps #cloudsecurity
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At 50 employees, cloud waste = nobody's watching. At 5,000, it's too many teams, zero shared accountability. Same levers. Completely different problem. 13 practitioners explain. kaloscloud.io/blog/cloud-cos…
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