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Cold Starts Are Dead
It never fails. Every time I talk about serverless, someone pushes back with the cold start argument. I still see it in forums, in blog comments, in a…
Rethinking What You Need to Do When Your Access Keys Are Compromised
"A Note from the Author" I work in the Technical Support division of an AWS reseller operating under the AWS Solution Provider Program in Japan. This …
Cloudflare R2 vs S3 for VPS Hosting Workloads
If you’re deciding cloudflare r2 vs s3 for a VPS-hosted app, the “best” object storage isn’t about brand loyalty—it’s about egress, latency, and how m…
Detecting & Blocking Anomalous Traffic with Cloud Anomaly Detector
A lightweight, containerized anomaly detection system that monitors traffic in real time, detects abuse patterns, and automatically blocks malicious I…
Smarter Cloud Spending: FinOps Agent Powered by Strands SDK and Amazon Bedrock
I always ask myself what I want to become in the future. The AI era came too fast and I felt both fear (am I going to be redundant?) and unlimited pos…
Day 67: Escaping the Sandbox. Wiring a Live Banking API to AWS Lambda
Today was the day my financial SaaS stopped being a toy. For Day 67, I replaced my simulated Plaid data with a live connection to the Wise API. The Ch…
The Consequences of Agentic AI
Customer support agents are hallucinating policies. Coding agents are deleting production resources. Dependency supply chains are getting poisoned. Ag…
4 Practical Boto3 Scripts for S3 Every DevOps Engineer Should Know
Working with AWS S3 through the console is fine until you need automation, repeatability, and control. That’s where Boto3 comes in. In this post, we’l…
Beyond Chatbots: How AI Is Becoming Enterprise Infrastructure
From Chatbots to Operating Layers: The Real AI Shift Happening Now For the last two years, most conversations about artificial intelligence have sound…
Stop hardcoding! Use AWS Parameter Store instead (Hands-On)
Stop hardcoding! Use AWS Parameter Store instead (Hands-On) This article is a practical guide for DevOps engineers who want to manage configuration an…
From Static to Runtime: Choosing Between CloudFront + S3, Amplify, and ECS for Frontends on AWS
Most AWS frontend journeys begin with the same honest instinct: keep the first version simple. A build pipeline pushes static assets, S3 holds the fil…
How I Passed the AWS Certified AI Practitioner in 2 Weeks Using 100% Free Resources (While Working Full-Time)
Two weeks ago, if someone had asked me about most AWS AI services, I probably would have smiled confidently… and changed the topic. Apart from a basic…
Prowler is great. Here's what to do with 400 findings.
If you've never heard of Prowler, you're not alone. I built my own AWS security scanner before I stumbled across it. Read the landing page, had a quie…
HCP Terraform's free tier is gone - what AWS teams should actually do next
When the HashiCorp BSL licence change landed in August 2023, we thought "HashiCorp won't do anything too aggressive - they need the community too much…
Launching a Windows Server on AWS EC2
When people start learning cloud engineering, they often begin with Linux servers and for good reason. But in real-world environments, Windows servers…
Day 66: Why Point-in-Time Recovery is the first button you should click in DynamoDB
Today on Day 66 of my Serverless Financial Agent build, things went south. While connecting a real banking API (Wise) to replace my sandbox data, my D…
Actionable Packages — paqueteAction: AWS Account Hardening Playbook
🌟 The Core Concept paqueteAction is a high-performance CloudFormation suite designed to automate AWS hardening. Covering Identity Center, Security Hub…
# Building a Production-Ready AI Governance Stack (Part 3/3)
This is Part 3 of a three-part series on AI governance architecture. In Part 1, we explored the negative proof problem why signed receipts can't prove…
ALGORITHM=INSTANT on Aurora: Which ALTER TABLE Operations Are Truly Zero-Downtime
In a high-availability Aurora MySQL environment, minimizing downtime during schema changes is paramount. Traditional ALTER TABLE operations often requ…
5 Serverless Frameworks I've Actually Deployed Python on AWS With (And One I Stopped Using)
TL;DR: Let me paint a picture you've probably lived through. You write a Python Lambda that works perfectly on your machine. 📖 Reading time: ~32 min W…
How I Passed the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional Certification🏅
Passing the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional exam is no joke. It’s one of the toughest AWS certifications—not because it’s purely theoreti…
Practical Guide: Building an Active-Active Multicloud Cell-Based Architecture
1. Introduction A multicloud cell-based architecture represents the pinnacle of fault isolation and vendor neutrality. By distributing autonomous "cel…
Migrating from LocalStack to fakecloud in 10 minutes
Canonical: fakecloud.dev/blog/migrate-from-localstack In March 2026, LocalStack replaced its open-source Community Edition with a proprietary image th…
I shipped a DevSecOps tool in 2026 with zero LLM calls. On purpose. I think determinism still wins.
Let me get one thing out of the way before the comments section catches fire. I am not a luddite. I use AI all day. This article was outlined in Curso…
Technologies And Concepts: Cheat Sheet for Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03)
☁️ Exam Guide: Solutions Architect Associate Technologies And Concepts Cheat Sheet 📘 Cheat Sheet Note: The SAA-C03 exam guide lists technologies and c…
Reading a Kubernetes bill: what each line item actually means
The bill arrived on a Tuesday, up 38% on last month, and finance wanted to know why by Friday. The attachment was 2,400 lines of m5.2xlarge , persiste…
EKS Cost Audit for Series A-C India SaaS: The 12-Point Checklist
Originally published at aicloudstrategist.com/blog/eks-cost-audit-checklist-india.html . This is a cross-post for the dev.to community. EKS Cost Audit…
Terraform 1.14 — The Complete Guide to List Resources (.tfquery.hcl), Actions Block, and `terraform query`: IaC's First Paradigm Shift in 5 Years
On November 19, 2025, HashiCorp shipped Terraform v1.14.0 , and on April 20, 2026 they released the v1.14.9 patch that fixes a Stacks plugin installat…
The Three Silent Cloud-Cost Patterns We Find in Every Series A-C SaaS Audit
I read cloud bills, architecture diagrams, and CloudWatch dashboards for a living. Across 23 Series A-C SaaS environments last quarter — fintech, devt…