<story><title>AWS GuardDuty – the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly</title><url>https://badshah.io/guardduty-good-bad-ugly/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>judge2020</author><text>&amp;gt; The Ugly
&amp;gt; Cost can get sky-high&lt;p&gt;Is there _any_ service on AWS where you feel like you&amp;#x27;re getting more value than the dollars you&amp;#x27;re paying with (other than IAM and Free tier services)? It&amp;#x27;s no secret that AWS is one of the most successful and profitable modern businesses, but perhaps there&amp;#x27;s a hidden offering that does something, does it well, and costs very little compared to the value it brings.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>czbond</author><text>Most if not all services, I feel are a good enough value...when I consider my &amp;quot;time&amp;quot; or hiring consultants time to do the same, etc.&lt;p&gt;A single example was GuardDuty above. I know how expensive similar to GuardDuty services are per month when you have to have a well planned strategy, implementation, execution, operations for threats... no matter if one does it &amp;quot;in house&amp;quot; or with &amp;quot;consultants&amp;quot; - the cost is very high to implement anything similar to GuardDuty. No matter if it is duct taped open source or enterprise offerings.&lt;p&gt;And then you have to do that same iterative business process loop across infrastructure (servers&amp;#x2F;database), data centers, code deployment, DevOps, security, etc etc.</text></comment>
<story><title>AWS GuardDuty – the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly</title><url>https://badshah.io/guardduty-good-bad-ugly/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>judge2020</author><text>&amp;gt; The Ugly
&amp;gt; Cost can get sky-high&lt;p&gt;Is there _any_ service on AWS where you feel like you&amp;#x27;re getting more value than the dollars you&amp;#x27;re paying with (other than IAM and Free tier services)? It&amp;#x27;s no secret that AWS is one of the most successful and profitable modern businesses, but perhaps there&amp;#x27;s a hidden offering that does something, does it well, and costs very little compared to the value it brings.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ceejayoz</author><text>RDS is one for me. I’ve set up a regionally replicated, point-in-time backuped DB cluster and have no desire to run one again.</text></comment>