Python for DevOps: Automating AWS with Boto3 - Practical Guide 2026
I spent my first year as a DevOps engineer doing the same thing every Friday: logging into the AWS console, finding EC2...
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DORA Metrics for DevOps Teams: How to Measure and Improve in 2026
I’ll never forget the day my VP of Engineering asked me a simple question: “How are we doing?”
GitHub Copilot vs Kiro for DevOps: 2026 Showdown
I’ve spent the last three months using both GitHub Copilot and Kiro on actual DevOps work. Not toy examples. Not “write a...
Cilium and eBPF for Kubernetes Networking: EKS Deep Dive 2026
I spent a full Saturday afternoon in 2023 trying to figure out why a production EKS cluster was dropping packets between two...
HashiCorp Vault on AWS: Secrets Management Deep Dive for 2026
I once watched a team rotate a database password by editing a YAML file, pushing it to a private Git repo, and...
AWS Lambda S3 Files: Mount S3 as a File System and Kill the /tmp Copy Loop
On April 21, 2026, AWS Lambda removed one of the dumbest pieces of plumbing in a lot of serverless code: the “download...
Ansible for AWS Automation: The Complete Guide for 2026
The first time I tried managing 40 EC2 instances with a bash script and a for loop, I ended up with 12...
Amazon EKS 1.30 Extended Support Deadline: Upgrade Planning Before July 23, 2026
Amazon EKS 1.30 reaches the end of extended support on July 23, 2026. If you still have production clusters on 1.30, the...
Route 53 ARC Readiness Check Availability Change: DR Readiness Without New Readiness Checks
April 30, 2026 is the date that matters if your AWS account has not already adopted Amazon Application Recovery Controller readiness checks....
Amazon Rekognition Availability Change: Replacing Streaming Video Analysis and Batch Image Moderation
AWS has set the same April 30, 2026 new-customer cutoff for two Amazon Rekognition capabilities: Streaming Video Analysis and Batch Image Content...
Amazon Comprehend Feature Availability Change: Replacing Topic Modeling, Event Detection, and Prompt Safety
AWS has set an important cutoff for Amazon Comprehend users: topic modeling, event detection, and prompt safety classification stop being available to...
Amazon SNS Message Data Protection Availability Change: Migration Options Before April 30, 2026
Amazon SNS message data protection has a hard availability change on April 30, 2026. AWS says the feature will no longer be...