I was chatting with a buddy who was moving his web sites from dedicated hosting to AWS. Let’s just say the FTUE isn’t great. That triggered a quick brain-dump of what you should do when you first get started with AWS. understand pets v cattle. In aws all resources should be “cattle”, not pets. Periodically terminate instances to test this. activate cloudtrail (in all regions). Use Loggly to index cloudtrail (free or ~$20/mo) create restricted IAM users. Never use your root acct. Activ...
