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AWS playbooks for SMB teams

Practical guidance you can execute with lean teams—focused on foundations, delivery velocity, reliability, and cost control.

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ATO Readiness for SMBs in 30 Days: Evidence-First Delivery

A practical sequence of AWS controls, artifacts, and decisions that accelerates approvals without gold-plating.

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Zero Trust on AWS for Lean Teams: What to Do First

Concrete steps for identity, segmentation, and telemetry that small teams can actually sustain.

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Landing Zone Guardrails: The 12 Baselines That Prevent Rebuilds

Account structure, logging, network patterns, and SCPs that keep growth safe and predictable.

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DevSecOps That Produces Audit Evidence Automatically

How to bake security checks and evidence capture into CI/CD so compliance stops being a fire drill.

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Migration Wave Planning: Reduce Cutover Risk With a Repeatable Playbook

Dependency mapping, readiness gates, and runbooks that keep schedules real.

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Cost Optimization Without Slowing Delivery: FinOps for SMBs

A control-loop approach to right-sizing, commitments, and unit economics.

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Disaster Recovery on AWS: RTO/RPO Without the Jargon

Choosing the right DR pattern and proving it works through testable evidence.

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Evidence-Ready Observability: Logs, Metrics, Traces, and Alerts

Minimum viable observability that supports incident response and accountability.

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IAM for Small Teams: Secure-by-Default Access Patterns

Role design, least privilege, break-glass access, and guardrails that don’t slow you down.

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Rehost vs Replatform vs Refactor: A Decision Framework for Modernization

A fast decision tree to pick show-your-work modernization paths that map to business outcomes.