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EKS and The Cross-AZ Tax: How to Stop Paying AWS $0.02/GB for Traffic That Should Never Leave Your Availability Zone
Avoid costly cross-AZ traffic in EKS clusters with a simple YAML change, saving on AWS charges for unnecessary inter-AZ data transfer.

AWS Lambda Now Knows Where It Lives: Exploring the New AZ Metadata
AWS Lambda now reveals its Availability Zone via a new metadata endpoint, simplifying functions that need AZ awareness.