Chevre, this week’s parsha is Ki Tetze (כי תצא). This week’s parsha is chock full of mitzvot. One thing that stood out to me this week is the idea that if a person is condemned to hang, they should not remain overnight on the gallows. There is a speed and a push within Judaism to burial the dead speedily. This can get delayed for legal reasons or for a police investigation, but in general, there is a speed to which folks are buried. It is not unheard of for folks to be buried the next day, within 24 hours. And in Jerusalem, they’ll even be buried at night.

In Judaism this speed is to honor the dead, to bring them to their final rest speedily. In the cloud, we have resources that we spin up for some amount of time and when we’re done, we terminate them (or they are terminated). This has nothing to do with honoring the compute resources except to free them up for use by someone else. Maybe we could say we’re honoring the bill or the bottom line. But it is best practice that when you are finished with a resources to stop/delete/terminate it so that you are no longer paying for it. And in something like a sandbox account, I recommend (and I use extensively) tools that will clean up after me. Be this the Instance Scheduler Solution (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/solutions/instance-scheduler-on-aws/). My Lambdas that ensure my CloudWatch Log groups have a retention policy and my S3 buckets delete abandoned Multipart Uploads (https://github.com/dubrowin/AWS-Reasonable-Account-Defaults). Or Lambdas that automate the creation and deletion of my EKS cluster daily.

May you all be efficient in your computing.

Shabbat Shalom.