Ditching CloudWatch Logs for CloudTrail: How I Cut CloudWatch Costs by Over Half on a Recent Project

Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

If you’ve ever set up CloudTrail and just… left the default CloudWatch Logs integration running, you’re probably paying more than you need to. I know I was.

The setup is almost too easy - CloudTrail ships events to a CloudWatch log group, you get a unified place to search logs, maybe you wire up a few metric filters for alerts. Done. Except the bill quietly grows every month and you don’t really notice until you actually look at it.

Protocol Buffers RPC calls through WebSockets on AWS Lambda with API Gateway

Thu, 04 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

We might argue about what is the important aspect of good communication.

But what are the few basic principles of communication where, at least, two parties will understand each other? Use of the same Glossary, happens in Real Time and uses Same language.

Lambda on Daniel Ancuta

Ditching CloudWatch Logs for CloudTrail: How I Cut CloudWatch Costs by Over Half on a Recent Project

Protocol Buffers RPC calls through WebSockets on AWS Lambda with API Gateway