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AWS S3 Files: The Missing Conversation
3+ hour, 4+ min ago (1089+ words) Amazon S3 Files launched on April 7, and the reaction was immediate " nearly universal excitement across the AWS engineering community. And honestly, the excitement is warranted. Andrew Warfield, VP and Distinguished Engineer at Amazon, framed the vision clearly: "With Tables, Vectors, and…...
Building automated AWS Regional availability checks with Amazon S3
9+ hour, 3+ min ago (408+ words) The data covers three main categories, each mapping to a different stage of your planning and deployment workflow. Use these to verify regional support before you commit to an architecture, write application code, or deploy infrastructure. This solution provides programmatic…...
CDK update - March 2026
7+ hour, 58+ min ago (640+ words) CDK Mixins are now stable in aws-cdk-lib " compose reusable infrastructure behaviors across any construct without extra packages. EKS v2 graduated to stable with production-ready APIs. And the CLI shipped --revert-drift to fix drifted resources in a single command. These features are…...
Kiro CLI + Argo CD MCP: Manage Git Ops from Your Terminal
7+ hour, 58+ min ago (828+ words) Managing Argo CD applications typically means writing Application YAML, configuring sync policies, and switching between the CLI and UI. It works, but there's a better way to do it. With Kiro CLI and the Argo CD MCP server, you can…...
AWS put a file system on S3; I stress-tested it
15+ hour, 53+ min ago (320+ words) The Register Home Page I've spent over a decade telling anyone who'd listen that S3 is not a filesystem, which in retrospect was a really weird way to start some conversations. So when AWS launched S3 Files on Tuesday " which lets you…...
Azure Route Server and NVA: Enforcing VNet Traffic - plus Terraform Code
10+ hour, 5+ min ago (250+ words) I recently discovered some knowledge gaps regarding Azure Route Server (ARS) during a discussion with a cloud architect, so I decided to explore it in depth using my personal lab environment. The test environment includes: The goal: understand how Azure…...
Fighting Eventual Consistency-Based Persistence - An Analysis of notyet
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (1699+ words) Home " Cybersecurity " Cloud Security " Fighting Eventual Consistency-Based Persistence " An Analysis of notyet As part of a collaboration with the notyet's creator Eduard Agavriloae, I was granted access to early builds of notyet with the aim of hardening it through independent…...
Pedal to Bare-Metal Kubernetes, Nutanix Forges NKP Metal
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (625+ words) Cloud is for everyone, but not necessarily always for every thing, remember? While that adage is still largely true, we tend to now talk about on-premises deployments and even air-gapped instances as private cloud in the same vein as public…...
Amazon S3 Files: Bringing File System Access Directly to Your S3 Data
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (1078+ words) Amazon S3 has been the default storage layer for a huge range of workloads for years. Data lakes, analytics pipelines, backups, media archives, ML datasets " it all ends up in S3 sooner or later. The problem is that a lot of software…...
The Ultimate Guide to Securing Ansible Supply Chain
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (1176+ words) Automation is the backbone of modern IT operations, and Ansible is one of the most popular tools for orchestrating infrastructure at scale. But with great power comes great responsibility: a single misconfigured playbook can impact thousands of systems in seconds....