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Guides, walkthroughs and AWS how-tos for asking your cloud questions in plain English.
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Find Idle AWS DMS Replication Instances
A TypeScript script that lists DMS replication instances with no running tasks, shows their monthly cost and deletes task-free ones only when you ask.
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Run CloudWatch Logs Insights Queries With AWS SDK v3
A reusable TypeScript helper for CloudWatch Logs Insights: start a query, poll with backoff, parse rows, stop runaway queries and know what each scan…
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DynamoDB Transactions With AWS SDK v3 (TransactWriteItems)
How to write all-or-nothing DynamoDB transactions in TypeScript with TransactWriteCommand, decode cancellations, retry safely and read with TransactGet.
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Find Unused Transit Gateway Attachments
A TypeScript script that finds Transit Gateway attachments with no traffic, shows what’s left in each attached VPC and prices the idle ones.
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Find Lambda Functions Not Running on Graviton (arm64)
A TypeScript script that finds Lambda functions still on x86_64, flags runtime, layer and image blockers, and estimates what arm64 would save.
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Check Amazon Inspector Is Enabled in Every Region
An AWS SDK v3 script that reports Amazon Inspector scan types, coverage and critical findings per Region, and enables missing scan types with –apply.
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Find Secrets in Plaintext SSM Parameters (SecureString vs String)
An AWS SDK v3 script that finds secret-looking String and StringList parameters without printing values and migrates chosen ones to SecureString.
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Find Secrets Manager Secrets Without Rotation
An AWS SDK v3 script that reports rotation health for every Secrets Manager secret and retries overdue Lambda rotations only when you pass –apply.
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Find RDS and Aurora Databases on Extended Support
A report-only AWS SDK v3 script that finds RDS and Aurora databases past standard support, reads lifecycle dates from the API and estimates the…
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Find EKS Clusters on Extended Support
A report-only AWS SDK v3 script that lists EKS clusters on extended support, their upgrade policy, the monthly surcharge and failing upgrade insights.
