https://blog.itsdavidg.co/categories/aws-cost-optimization/ Recent content in AWS Cost Optimization on David Gomez - Technology & Business Insights Hugo en-us Fri, 11 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-11-aws-cost-optimization-aws-lambda-recursive-loop-detection-is-now-available-in-eu/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-11-aws-cost-optimization-aws-lambda-recursive-loop-detection-is-now-available-in-eu/ AWS Lambda recursive loop detection is now supported for functions running in Europe Sovereign Cloud. Recursive loop detection automatically detects and stops recursive invocations between Lambda functions and other supported services, preventing unexpected billing caused by unintended recursive loops. Customers use event sources such as Amazon S3, Amazon SQ https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-10-aws-cost-optimization-aws-lambda-now-supports-90-minute-function-timeout-on-lamb/ Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-10-aws-cost-optimization-aws-lambda-now-supports-90-minute-function-timeout-on-lamb/ AWS Lambda now supports a 90-minute function timeout for asynchronous and event source mapping (ESM) invocations on Lambda Managed Instances (LMI) , a 6x increase from the previous 15-minute limit. You can now run data processing, media transcoding, financial calculations, AI inference, and batch workloads on Lambda for jobs that require longer continuous ex https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-09-aws-cost-optimization-amazon-rds-for-mariadb-now-supports-community-mariadb-mino/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-09-aws-cost-optimization-amazon-rds-for-mariadb-now-supports-community-mariadb-mino/ Starting today, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports MariaDB minor versions 10.6.28, 10.11.19, 11.4.13, 11.8.9, and 12.3.3, the latest minors released by community MariaDB. In addition to operational improvements, these minor versions introduce support for post-quantum TLS (PQ-TLS) key exchange, providing you with post-qua https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-08-aws-cost-optimization-amazon-ec2-p6-b200-instances-are-now-available-in-the-aws/ Tue, 08 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-08-aws-cost-optimization-amazon-ec2-p6-b200-instances-are-now-available-in-the-aws/ Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) P6-B200 instances accelerated by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs are available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region. These instances offer up to 2x performance compared to P5en instances for AI training and inference. P6-B200 instances feature 8 Blackwell GPUs with 1440 GB of high-bandwidth GPU memory and https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-07-aws-cost-optimization-amazon-ec2-now-supports-specifying-compatible-instance-typ/ Mon, 07 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-07-aws-cost-optimization-amazon-ec2-now-supports-specifying-compatible-instance-typ/ Amazon EC2 now enables AMI owners to define which instance types are compatible with their AMIs. Owners can specify supported instance types, unsupported instance types, or both — and any launch attempt on a non-permitted instance type is automatically blocked. AMI owners now have a built-in way to prevent launches on instances that are not compatible with t https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-06-aws-cost-optimization-amazon-ec2-m9g-and-m9gd-instances-are-now-available-in-fou/ Sun, 06 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-06-aws-cost-optimization-amazon-ec2-m9g-and-m9gd-instances-are-now-available-in-fou/ Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M9g and M9gd instances, powered by AWS Graviton5 processors, are available in Europe (Ireland) and Asia Pacific (Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo) regions. AWS Graviton5 processors are the fifth generation of custom-designed CPUs, delivering the best price performance for memory-intensive workloads running on https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-05-aws-cost-optimization-amazon-ec2-c9g-and-c9gd-instances-are-now-available-in-asi/ Sat, 05 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-05-aws-cost-optimization-amazon-ec2-c9g-and-c9gd-instances-are-now-available-in-asi/ Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C9g and C9gd instances, powered by AWS Graviton5 processors, are available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region. AWS Graviton5 processors are the fifth generation of custom-designed CPUs, delivering the best price performance for compute-intensive workloads running on Amazon EC2. C9g and C9gd instances https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-04-aws-cost-optimization-amazon-ecs-managed-daemons-now-support-non-critical-daemon/ Fri, 04 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-04-aws-cost-optimization-amazon-ecs-managed-daemons-now-support-non-critical-daemon/ Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now support non-critical Managed Daemons for ECS Managed Instances . You can configure a daemon as non-critical so that your mission-critical application tasks continue running uninterrupted, even when a daemon fails, stops, or becomes unhealthy. Amazon ECS Managed Daemons lets you centrally deploy and manage sof https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-03-aws-cost-optimization-aws-config-now-supports-60-new-resource-types/ Thu, 03 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-03-aws-cost-optimization-aws-config-now-supports-60-new-resource-types/ AWS Config now supports 60 additional AWS resource types across key services including Amazon Bedrock, Amazon EC2, Amazon SageMaker, and AWS Organizations. This expansion provides greater coverage over your AWS environment, enabling you to more effectively discover, assess, audit, and remediate an even broader range of resources. With this launch, if you hav https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-02-aws-cost-optimization-amazon-cloudwatch-database-insights-now-supports-self-mana/ Wed, 02 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-02-aws-cost-optimization-amazon-cloudwatch-database-insights-now-supports-self-mana/ Today, AWS announces support for self-managed PostgreSQL databases in Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights. Using CloudWatch Database Insights, you can now monitor your self-managed PostgreSQL instances running on Amazon EC2, alongside Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora, to give you a complete view of your database fleet in a single console. Amazon CloudWatch Datab https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-01-aws-cost-optimization-amazon-ec2-r9g-and-r9gd-memory-optimized-instances-are-now/ Tue, 01 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-01-aws-cost-optimization-amazon-ec2-r9g-and-r9gd-memory-optimized-instances-are-now/ Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R9g and R9gd instances, powered by AWS Graviton5 processors, are generally available. AWS Graviton5 processors are the fifth generation of custom-designed CPUs, delivering the best price performance for memory-intensive workloads running on Amazon EC2. R9g instances are ideal for memory-intensive work