ECS Canary and Linear Deployments with Network Load Balancers
On February 4, 2026, Amazon ECS added native support for linear and canary deployment strategies for services using Network Load Balancers. That...
Latest Publications
Testing Step Functions in CI/CD with the Enhanced TestState API
On March 22, 2026, the AWS Compute Blog published a practical guide for the enhanced Step Functions TestState API. The important part...
Serverless Payloads Are Now 1 MB: Lambda, SQS, and EventBridge Architecture Changes
On January 29, 2026, AWS raised one of the quiet limits that shaped serverless architecture for years: asynchronous Lambda invocations, Amazon SQS...
AWS Lambda Durable Functions vs Step Functions: The Serverless Workflow Decision Framework
AWS Lambda Durable Functions change a decision that used to be almost automatic. For years, if a serverless workflow needed to wait,...
OpenAI on Amazon Bedrock: Codex, GPT-5.5, and Managed Agents for AWS Teams
On April 28, 2026, AWS announced something that changes the enterprise AI architecture conversation: OpenAI models, Codex on Amazon Bedrock, and Amazon...
Terraform for_each vs count: When to Use Each in 2026
I’ve made the mistake of using count where I should have used for_each. Most people have. You end up with a Terraform...
OpenTelemetry + CloudWatch: Practical Observability for AWS in 2026
I used to instrument AWS services the hard way. AWS X-Ray SDK here, CloudWatch Logs there, custom metrics scattered across a dozen...
Cloudflare Terraform Provider v4 to v5: tf-migrate Without State Surgery
Cloudflare released cf-terraforming tf-migrate on April 24, 2026, and the target audience is every team that looked at the Cloudflare Terraform provider...
Amazon Bedrock Trust and Safety: A Production Checklist for AI Apps
AWS published Bedrock trust-and-safety guidance on April 29, 2026, and two numbers should catch every AI platform team’s attention: AWS cites an...
IAM Identity Center Session Tags: Practical ABAC with Entra ID and AWS
AWS published a practical IAM Identity Center session-tags walkthrough on April 28, 2026, and the pattern is worth copying: take attributes from...
Terraform 1.15: Dynamic Module Sources, Backend Validation, and Upgrade Gotchas
Terraform 1.15 is the kind of release that can break a quiet CI lane before anyone notices the changelog. The headline features...
AWS Client VPN Native Transit Gateway Attachment: Remote Access Without the VPN VPC
AWS Client VPN can now attach natively to AWS Transit Gateway. AWS announced the integration on April 23, 2026, and the practical...