Practical AWS guidance for SMB teams
Short, actionable articles and checklists built for decision-makers and operators—focused on speed, reliability, and cost control.
ATO Readiness for SMBs in 30 Days: Evidence-First Delivery
A practical sequence of controls, artifacts, and decisions that accelerates approvals without gold-plating.
Compliance • 8 min read
Zero Trust on AWS for Lean Teams: What to Do First
Identity, segmentation, and telemetry steps small teams can actually sustain.
Security • 7 min read
AWS Landing Zone Guardrails That Prevent Rebuilds
Multi-account structure, logging baselines, IAM patterns, and policy guardrails.
Foundations • 9 min read
Disaster Recovery on AWS: Choosing the Right Pattern for RTO/RPO
Backup vs DR, pilot light, warm standby, and multi-site patterns—when to use each.
Resilience • 9 min read
Migration Wave Planning: Reduce Cutover Risk With a Repeatable Playbook
Dependency mapping, readiness gates, and runbooks that keep schedules real.
Modernization • 9 min read
DevSecOps Evidence That Doesn’t Slow Delivery
Bake evidence capture into pipelines so compliance is a byproduct—not a fire drill.
DevSecOps • 8 min read
Observability That’s Evidence-Ready
Logging, metrics, and tracing patterns that help operations and satisfy auditors.
Ops • 7 min read
IAM Basics for Regulated AWS Environments
Least privilege patterns, role design, break-glass access, and audit-friendly setup.
Security • 6 min read
FinOps Guardrails for Secure, Compliant Cost Optimization
Tagging, budgets, anomaly detection, and policy guardrails that won’t break compliance.
FinOps • 7 min read
AWS Application Modernization Framework for SMBs
A simple path to modernize without rewriting everything at once.
Modernization • 8 min read