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.

All the numbers: Amazon Prime Day 2026 powered by AWS(aws.amazon.com)

33 points by acronpolis 19 days ago | 25 comments

AWS News Blog post presenting usage statistics for AWS services that powered Amazon Prime Day 2026.

Amazon Aurora Limitless Database(aws.amazon.com)

52 points by samaysharma 2 years ago | 39 comments

Retiring the AWS Documentation on GitHub(aws.amazon.com)

23 points by rbanffy 3 years ago | 15 comments

Amazon CodeWhisperer, Free for Individual Use, Is Now Generally Available(aws.amazon.com)

285 points by 20wenty 3 years ago | 122 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.

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.

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.

I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left(fourlightyears.blogspot.com)

808 points by andrewstuart 5 months ago | 574 comments

Personal blog post by a former early AWS advocate explaining the frustrations that led them to leave AWS and why returning reminded them of those issues.

AWS engineer reports PostgreSQL perf halved by Linux 7.0, fix may not be easy(phoronix.com)

357 points by crcastle 6 months ago | 109 comments

Phoronix news article reporting an AWS engineer's finding that Linux 7.0 roughly halves PostgreSQL throughput, with a revert unlikely and PostgreSQL possibly needing changes.

S3 is files, but not a filesystem(calpaterson.com)

535 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 400 comments

Cal Paterson's essay on why Amazon S3 stores files but isn't a filesystem, discussing deep modules, mismatched interfaces, and why SAP is painful.