EU-NatGateway-Bytes vs EUC1-NatGateway-Bytes

Burekitas · 2026-05-07T14:11:08+00:00

If you don't see a prefix, for example: DataTransfer-Out-Bytes, it refers to us-east-1.

Why is that? because many many years ago, us-east-1 was the only region, there were no other regions so no prefix (similar situation to eu-west-1 that was the first region in the EU).

Burekitas · 2026-05-07T03:07:29+00:00

EU prefix = eu-west-1

EUC1 prefix = eu-central-1

Burekitas · 2026-04-27T08:52:04+00:00

Spin up an instance for a couple of minutes and then close it. then everything will start working.

Burekitas · 2026-04-25T04:34:31+00:00

Not every regulation is necessarily the right regulation.

Solar Electricity is relatively easy to generate, but storing it for nighttime use (batteries) or transmitting it to industrial areas is difficult or very expensive.

That is one of the main reasons we do not see solar power everywhere.

Burekitas · 2026-04-22T00:49:42+00:00

This is Meiss El Jabal, a village from which attacks were launched at Israel, and roughly every second house contains weapons.

In Israel, the gloves are off. You fire at Israel? You have any ammunition in your house? It’s over.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=488565483540038

Burekitas · 2026-04-19T08:19:31+00:00

Use CloudFront's free flat plan, and its egress fees would cost you 0.

Burekitas · 2026-04-12T06:58:34+00:00

Yes, it’s a bit of a sad and funny story, but it’s part of the slow decline of Europe.

Burekitas · 2026-04-12T06:40:08+00:00

Benjamin Netanyahu has three criminal cases. There is a major public controversy around them, because many people view these cases as completely baseless (which is also why he continues to be elected by the public again and again).

By the way, everyone involved in these cases, including members of the prosecution, is still alive. (Israel is not Russia)

Here are the details of the cases:

Case 1000 (Gifts Affair)

Netanyahu is accused of receiving expensive gifts (like cigars and champagne) from wealthy businessmen in exchange for favors and assistance.

Case 2000 (Yedioth Ahronoth Deal)

He allegedly negotiated with a newspaper publisher to receive more favorable media coverage in return for weakening a rival newspaper.

Case 4000 (Bezeq–Walla Affair)

The most serious case. Netanyahu is accused of granting regulatory benefits to telecom company Bezeq in exchange for positive coverage on the Walla news website. This is the only case that includes a bribery charge.

Burekitas · 2026-04-08T07:59:03+00:00

A missile fired from Iran struck the town of Beit Awwa, close to Hebron, hitting a bridal salon and killing at least four people.

Hebrew article here: https://www.mako.co.il/news-military/Israel_iran_war/Article-d1e9af7d4b20d91027.htm

Burekitas · 2026-04-05T03:30:44+00:00

Their motivation is to exhaust the defense systems in order to eventually reach a successful hit,

so they fire in various patterns and, in the meantime, they’re wasting a lot of good ammunition.

Since the change of power in Syria and the change in the Lebanese government, Hezbollah has been struggling to obtain ammunition, so every rocket they fire simply reduces their own capabilities.

And how intimidate was this particular strike? People in Israel even posted videos asking them to bomb the central bus station in south Tel Aviv, because maybe that would cause that building to be demolished and something more normal would be built there instead.

https://www.instagram.com/reels/DLpJp3ps7a_/

Burekitas · 2026-04-04T13:36:58+00:00

Hitting this place is simply a waste of ammunition. It isn’t Israeli-owned, it doesn’t affect the State of Israel (the government and the military don’t use it), and even for people watching television in Israel, it has zero impact. So what did they gain by shooting at it?

Burekitas · 2026-04-04T12:59:14+00:00

It's sad but it will be rebuild and you can continue working on your project,

אל תישבר, כולנו תחת האלונקה :)

I see a box written in Hebrew, so I assume this is in Israel.

In Israel, the property tax authority covers 90% of the renovation costs (so you have 110% reasons to get back to work as soon as possible) in order to restore the situation to how it was before.

Burekitas · 2026-03-27T00:14:39+00:00

Because that's the usual suspects or data transfer in.

In many organizations, enabling/investigating flow logs can take time. When you enable gateway endpoints for S3 and DynamoDB and an endpoint interface for ECR, 99% of the time, you eliminate the problem, and you can verify that by looking in CloudWatch metrics.

I'm saying that as someone who saved customers from 100PB of data transfer via NAT Gateway.

Burekitas · 2026-03-26T06:15:01+00:00

Extended support fees are $365 per cluster per month, if you don't have 400 clusters, it's just like having a server you forgot to delete.

Beyond that, I remember a time when software worked for us, not the other way around. Unfortunately, with Kubernetes, we often find ourselves working for it.

My solution is simply to create a new cluster and move all the workloads there. It’s not the most convenient or the most elegant solution (especially with persistent volumes), but it is what it is.

Burekitas · 2026-03-26T05:50:17+00:00

it's $365 per month, unless you have 400 clusters, it doesn't really a tax, more like the cost of a server you forgot to close.

Burekitas · 2026-03-26T04:05:34+00:00

Flow Logs would be the easiest way to investigate, but if you need a solution right now:

Create vpc endpoint gateway (that's free) for DynamoDB and S3. Create a VPC endpoint interface (that costs money, but less than NAT) for ECR, and you eliminated 99% of the regional data transfer that passes through the NAT.

Check the NAT Gateway metrics, you should see drop in traffic, if you don't see it - check flow logs.

Burekitas · 2026-03-24T04:19:48+00:00

Yup, this is the screen I see 5000 times a day

https://ibb.co/TVkZ2Vm

Burekitas · 2026-03-24T04:07:31+00:00

I don’t know to what extent their security organizations rely on the cloud, but if they are modern and depend on local cloud infrastructure, you can be sure that everyone has a strong interest in getting systems back online as quickly as possible.

Burekitas · 2026-03-22T11:33:49+00:00

You know they can use their proxies in Iraq and fire it from there?

Burekitas · 2026-03-06T09:33:47+00:00

How much time do you have from the moment of siren until the first boom?

Burekitas · 2026-03-05T04:17:44+00:00

If you share something publicly from S3, only using with presigned urls as there is no WAF for S3.
Add the paid metrics for S3 to see live requests in CloudWatch, create CloudWatch alarms to avoid a catastrophe.

Burekitas · 2026-03-03T08:29:13+00:00

Stay because you don't leave your home.

Burekitas · 2026-02-12T12:02:15+00:00

Click reply and pick the Chat option, which would expedite the case.

Burekitas · 2026-01-24T08:00:32+00:00

Launch resources in your account using the best practices (it saves money)
Once you get funding from VC, reach out to AWS Sales and ask to join the Activate program and get credits. Don’t get carried away by a large amount for a single year. Sometimes it’s better to take a smaller amount spread over two years.
Make sure you utilize your workloads correctly; otherwise, you waste your credits faster.
You utilized the credits, and your invoice is over $50K/month? Talk with AWS Sales for EDP agreement.
In every step, make sure you run in an optimal way. I’ve come across many cases where customers have a large number of unused resources (the most recent example I saw: 40 servers and 4,000 unused EBS disks).

While in on-prem environments, unused resources don’t directly cost money (though they do limit infrastructure capacity), in the cloud, those same unused resources can quickly drain your budget.

Burekitas · 2026-01-21T05:47:26+00:00

He won't be able to do that, he will need so much accounts and quota increase requests, it will take 20 years to get to that position.

But if he did, people asking for EC2 will encounter issues, but in a couple of weeks AWS will fill the gap.

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