Blink Monthly Newsletter September 2022

👋 Hello Blink community!

It’s already October! Want a sneak peek into the latest Blink improvements and integrations? Go check out the Blink documentation site for new tutorials, updates, and maybe even a few hints about upcoming feature releases.

In case you missed anything else, we’ve rounded up all our favorite news, articles, and how-to guides from the last month.

Keep reading for more exciting news from the Blink team ⬇️

🔦 Featured news

• Reducing Your Cloud Costs: An Operational Optimization Guide ✅
  Cloud costs are soaring today! That’s why it’s never been more important to have an operational strategy for optimizing your cloud costs. Whether you’re already a FinOps wizard or you’re just starting to evaluate your cloud spend, this helpful cost optimization guide outlines the most common operating expenses and provides you with actionable recommendations to lower your monthly cloud bill. Keep reading the Blink guide to reducing your cloud costs

📚 How-to guides

AWS

• Getting a List of "AccessDenied" Events with Users and Source IP Addresses
• Copying an Existing EC2 Instance to Another Region
• Checking that Enhanced Monitoring is Enabled on Your RDS Instances
• How to Find and Remove Old EBS Snapshots

Azure

• How to Pause Your AKS Clusters Nightly
• Finding and Removing Unused Azure Virtual Network Gateways
• How to Find and Remove Old Azure Snapshots

GCP

• How to Create GCP Disk Snapshots and Snapshot Schedules

Helm

• Creating an Approval Process for Helm Charts on your Kubernetes Clusters

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