Tobias Schmidt
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Tobias Schmidt
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Helping aspiring engineers master the cloud

👨‍💻 Freelance Software Engineer
✍️ Book #1: http://awsfundamentals.com
📕 Book #2: http://cloudwatchbook.com

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If you didn't know, AWS offers many official MCP servers 🪄
This includes AWS knowledge, infrastructure automation, database management, and cost insights.

github.com/awslabs/mcp

Here's a brief overview of what's already available:
November 6, 2025 at 8:00 AM
CloudWatch bills for high-traffic Lambda functions can get out of hand fast.
Most people focus on Lambda duration and invocations, but log ingestion is definitely the silent budget killer.

One verbose log line, multiplied by millions of requests = 🔥 💸
October 28, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Lambda has tons of use cases, but one I've missed: using it as some kind of sandbox for running AI-generated code.
Lambda's isolation and scaling are a solid fit for this problem.
October 24, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Getting my AWS organization's monthly cost report by account directly in the terminal with the official MCP AWS Cost Server ✨

Big thanks to Warp and AWS for releasing so many excellent MCP Servers! 🤝
October 9, 2025 at 6:59 AM