MicroVMs: Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control(aws.amazon.com)

368 points by justincormack 4 months ago | 199 comments

AWS News Blog post announcing AWS Lambda MicroVMs, which let users run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control, built on Firecracker.

AWS Lambda Web Functions(aws.amazon.com)

81 points by HatchedLake721 13 days ago | 76 comments

AWS News Blog post announcing AWS Lambda Web Functions, a new form factor for running standard HTTP web applications on Lambda without rewriting code as event handlers.

Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption in US-East-1 Region(aws.amazon.com)

487 points by meetpateltech 1 year ago | 150 comments

AWS post-event summary describing the October 19-20, 2025 Amazon DynamoDB service disruption and related impacts in the US-East-1 region.

Opening the AWS European Sovereign Cloud(aws.amazon.com)

47 points by notmine1337 9 months ago | 48 comments

Amazon EC2 M9g Instances(aws.amazon.com)

137 points by AlexClickHouse 10 months ago | 60 comments

Why AWS Supports Valkey(aws.amazon.com)

80 points by alexbilbie 2 years ago | 79 comments

AWS us-east-1 down

567 points by rurp 3 years ago | 256 comments

Hacker News discussion thread reporting an AWS us-east-1 outage with increased error rates affecting Lambda and IAM-dependent services.

Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout(theregister.com)

889 points by raw_anon_1111 1 year ago | 460 comments

A Register column by Corey Quinn arguing that the October 2025 AWS outage, caused by DNS issues, reflects Amazon losing senior engineers and institutional knowledge.

AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran(wsj.com)

497 points by berkeleyjunk 1 month ago | 415 comments

Wall Street Journal article reporting that AWS cannot restore some customer data from Middle East data center facilities struck by Iran.

Amazon's Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff(bloomberg.com)

329 points by MurizS 2 years ago | 302 comments

Bloomberg news article reporting that Amazon-owned Twitch will cut about 500 employees, roughly 35% of its staff, to stem losses.

I Followed the Official AWS Amplify Guide and Was Charged $1,100(elliott-king.github.io)

356 points by thunderbong 1 year ago | 215 comments

Blog post by Elliott King describing how following the official AWS Amplify guide led to an unexpected $1,100 AWS charge.

Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs(primevideotech.com)

826 points by debdut 3 years ago | 415 comments

Prime Video Tech blog post on moving its audio/video monitoring service from distributed microservices to a monolith, improving scale and cutting costs by 90%.