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AWS CloudFormation speeds up infrastructure deployment with Express mode, enabling AI agents and developers to receive deployment confirmation in seconds and iterate faster. Available in all commercial Regions at no additional cost.
Amazon EC2 C9g and C9gd instances, powered by AWS Graviton5, are now generally available. They deliver up to 25% better compute performance than Graviton4-based instances, 5x larger cache, fastest memory of any processor instances in the…
AWS Certificate Manager now supports the ACME protocol for public TLS certificates, enabling automated issuance and renewal through any ACMEv2-compatible client on any workload. Administrators get centralized governance, IAM-based access…
Debugging applications in Kubernetes can be tricky. Containers are designed to be small, immutable, and purpose-built. That is great for production, but not always ideal when something breaks. Many production images are minimal or…
A few years ago, if there was a discussion on “Should we run databases on Kubernetes?”, there were more people saying no than yes. One of the common answers was, “No. Kubernetes is for stateless workloads. Keep your databases outside.”…
AWS launched Lambda MicroVMs, a new serverless compute primitive that runs each user session or AI agent in its own Firecracker virtual machine with hardware-level isolation, snapshot-based rapid launch, and state preservation for up to…
Erik Steiger discusses the operational pain of legacy PDF generation in regulated banking and manufacturing. He explains how transitioning from resource-heavy engines like Puppeteer and LaTeX to a serverless Rust architecture powered by…
On Elastic Observability Serverless, metrics data stored in TSDS index mode is now priced at 25% of the standard Observability per-GB rate for both ingest and retention.
Amazon has released AWS FinOps Agent in public preview, a managed service that automates several common FinOps workflows. The agent can investigate cost anomalies, correlate spend changes with AWS activity data, and integrate with tools…
AWS has recently announced the AWS Workload Credentials Provider to automatically deliver and refresh certificates and secrets for applications. The open source tool reduces the need for custom automation, helps prevent outages caused by…
Privacy controls — systems that enforce retention, access, allowed-purpose, downstream-sharing, or anonymization policies — require a reliable understanding of data to function. Before such a control can operate effectively, it must know…
Headlamp is an open-source, extensible Kubernetes SIG UI project designed to let you explore, manage, and debug cluster resources directly from a browser. Cluster API (CAPI) is a Kubernetes sub-project that brings declarative,…
