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Amazon ECS Service Connect Now Routes In-Zone by Default: How Zone-Aware Routing Cuts the Cross-AZ Bill You Never See

6 July 2026·7 min read

Amazon ECS Service Connect Now Routes In-Zone by Default: How Zone-Aware Routing Cuts the Cross-AZ Bill You Never See Cross-availability-zone data transfer is the most expensive line item most...

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Amazon ECS Deployment Observability Is Here: How to Catch a Failing Rollout Before It Costs You Six Figures an Hour

4 July 2026·6 min read

Amazon ECS Deployment Observability Is Here: How to Catch a Failing Rollout Before It Costs You Six Figures an Hour ITIC’s 2024 Hourly Cost of Downtime Survey found that more than 90 percent of...

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AWS Certificate Manager Now Speaks ACME: How to Automate Public TLS Certificates Before 47-Day Renewals Arrive

3 July 2026·5 min read

AWS Certificate Manager Now Speaks ACME: How to Automate Public TLS Certificates Before 47-Day Renewals Arrive Every engineering leader has a certificate story, and none of them are good. A wildcard...

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EC2 AMI Watermarks: How to Stop Unapproved Machine Images From Reaching Production

2 July 2026·5 min read

EC2 AMI Watermarks give your golden images tamper-proof provenance and let you block unapproved AMIs org-wide, at no cost. Here’s how to roll it out.

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AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Secure AI & Untrusted Code Execution

30 June 2026·7 min read

AWS Lambda MicroVMs run untrusted and AI-generated code with real VM isolation, kept stateful and suspended on idle. Here is what it means for your team.

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AWS Continuum: How Machine-Speed Security Clears the Vulnerability Backlog Your Team Cannot Fix by Hand

29 June 2026·6 min read

AWS Continuum: How Machine-Speed Security Clears the Vulnerability Backlog Your Team Cannot Fix by Hand Most security teams are not losing because they cannot find vulnerabilities. They are losing...

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AWS FinOps Agent: The AI That Tells You Who Caused Your Cloud Bill Spike and Why

27 June 2026·6 min read

AWS FinOps Agent: The AI That Tells You Who Caused Your Cloud Bill Spike and Why Every founder who runs on AWS knows the feeling. The monthly bill lands, it is higher than last month, and nobody can...

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Bitnami Images Are Gone From ECR Public: How to Prevent Production Outages

25 June 2026·7 min read

Bitnami images were removed from ECR Public on 10 June 2026 and pulls now fail. Here is how to find, mirror, and replace them before they break production.

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AWS DevOps Agent Now Reviews Releases Before Production

25 June 2026·7 min read

AWS DevOps Agent can now review code changes and run change-specific tests before they merge. Here is what its new release gate means for your AWS pipeline.

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Amazon ECS Auto Scaling Is Now 76% Faster: How High-Resolution Metrics Help You Survive Traffic Spikes

23 June 2026·5 min read

Amazon ECS auto scaling is now up to 76% faster with 20-second high-resolution metrics. Here is how it works and how to use it without overpaying.

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Amazon EKS 1.36 Upgrade Guide: What Breaks and How to Prepare Before You Run It

23 June 2026·6 min read

Amazon EKS now runs Kubernetes 1.36. Here is what breaks, what is removed, and the upgrade checklist to run before you touch production.

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AWS Context: Turning Your Scattered Data into a Knowledge Graph Your AI Agents Can Trust

20 June 2026·7 min read

AWS Context builds a governed knowledge graph from your existing data so AI agents can search it safely. What it does and how to get ready.

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