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Amazon GuardDuty AI Protection: How to Catch the Attacker Running Up a $46,000 a Day Bedrock Bill

20 July 2026·7 min read

Amazon GuardDuty AI Protection detects LLMjacking, cost harvesting and prompt injection on Bedrock and SageMaker. What it catches and how to enable it.

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EC2 Auto Scaling Reservations-Then-Balanced: How to Stop Paying for AWS Capacity You Never Launch Into

20 July 2026·8 min read

AWS EC2 Auto Scaling can now fill your capacity reservations before balancing across zones. Here is what reservations-then-balanced changes for your bill.

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EKS Auto Mode Now Evacuates a Failing Availability Zone for You: How Zonal Shift Protects Your Uptime

18 July 2026·6 min read

EKS Auto Mode now supports ARC zonal shift and autoshift, moving traffic out of a failing Availability Zone automatically. Here is what it means for uptime.

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AWS Security Hub Network Scanning: How to Find the Internet-Facing Resources You Did Not Know You Had

17 July 2026·8 min read

AWS Security Hub Network Scanning probes your resources from the internet to find what is actually reachable. What it catches, what it misses, and how to use it.

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AWS MCP Server Now Supports OAuth: How to Stop Your AI Agents Running on Long-Lived AWS Keys

16 July 2026·9 min read

AWS Sign-In now supports OAuth 2.0 for the AWS MCP Server, so AI agents authenticate with short-lived tokens instead of long-lived access keys. Here is what shipped, what the data says, and what to...

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Claude Apps Gateway for AWS: How to Cap AI Coding Spend Before It Eats Your Budget in Four Months

15 July 2026·10 min read

Uber burned its 2026 AI budget in 4 months. AWS’s new Claude apps gateway puts spend caps, SSO, and policy for Claude Code in one self-hosted container.

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AWS IAM Access Analyzer Now Tells You Who Can Reach Your S3 Buckets: How Internal Access Findings Close the Over-Permissioning Gap

14 July 2026·7 min read

IAM Access Analyzer now shows which AWS principals can reach your S3, DynamoDB, and RDS crown jewels. Here is how internal access findings close the gap.

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AWS Cut GPU Management Fees by Up to 60%: What ECS and EKS Auto Mode Users Should Do Now

13 July 2026·6 min read

AWS cut ECS and EKS Auto Mode GPU management fees up to 60% on July 1, 2026. What changed, how much it saves, and where GPU spend still leaks.

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AWS Just Moved 21 Services Into Maintenance Mode: What the July 30 Cutoff Means for Your Next AWS Account

10 July 2026·9 min read

AWS moved 21 services to maintenance mode. From 30 July 2026 new accounts are blocked. What Kendra, Q Business and Bedrock Agents users must do now.

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AWS Security Hub Now Maps the Blast Radius of an Exposed Resource: How Impact Analysis Ends Severity Guesswork

9 July 2026·7 min read

AWS Security Hub impact analysis maps the blast radius of exposed resources through IAM privilege escalation paths. What it computes, and how to act on it.

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Amazon EKS Now Lets You Roll Back a Kubernetes Upgrade: How the Seven-Day Safety Net Changes Cluster Operations

8 July 2026·6 min read

Amazon EKS Now Lets You Roll Back a Kubernetes Upgrade: How the Seven-Day Safety Net Changes Cluster Operations Kubernetes upgrades have always been the part of running EKS that teams quietly dread....

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Amazon OpenSearch Service’s New Log Analytics Engine: How to Cut Log Storage Costs Up to 70% Without Dropping Data

7 July 2026·7 min read

Amazon OpenSearch Service’s New Log Analytics Engine: How to Cut Log Storage Costs Up to 70% Without Dropping Data Every scale-up eventually meets the same wall. The application is growing, the...

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