58 stories tagged aws, newest first.
227 points by cubefox | 98 comments
AWS Security Blog post reporting that Amazon's MadPot honeypots saw PHP2Shell exploitation attempts four days before public disclosure, with IOCs and recommended actions.
110 points by hayd | 26 comments
GitHub issue requesting Amazon Linux 2023 ship patched PHP packages for critical CVEs, with users asking AWS for a release timeline.
22 points by pramodbiligiri | 18 comments
GitHub repository from AWS Labs providing AI-Driven Life Cycle (AI-DLC) adaptive workflow steering rules for AI coding agents.
81 points by HatchedLake721 | 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.
33 points by acronpolis | 25 comments
AWS News Blog post presenting usage statistics for AWS services that powered Amazon Prime Day 2026.
264 points by gmays | 74 comments
Blog post from Strands Agents announcing Strands Decider 2B, a small open-source decision model for fast experimentation and local development.
573 points by elffjs | 290 comments
Simon Willison blog post arguing that pay-per-usage services and APIs need default hard budget caps, especially as coding agents make spinning up costly services easy.
134 points by theanonymousone | 68 comments
Homepage for fakecloud, a local AWS cloud emulator for integration tests that claims 105 services, 7,508 operations, and full Smithy conformance.
160 points by theanonymousone | 35 comments
Landing page for Floci, a tool that emulates AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI cloud services locally for fast, credential-free development and testing.
129 points by zuckerborg0101 | 89 comments
Blog post on the Strands Agents site announcing Strands Harness, a new component of the Strands AI agent framework.
497 points by berkeleyjunk | 415 comments
Wall Street Journal article reporting that AWS cannot restore some customer data from Middle East data center facilities struck by Iran.
1061 points by onderkalaci | 307 comments
Announcement by DuckLabs founders that the company will join Amazon Web Services while DuckDB, DuckLake, and Quack remain open source.
1248 points by nprateem | 727 comments
Hacker News discussion where a user reports an AWS estimated bill of $1.7 billion despite normal usage under $5, linked to an AWS billing data issue.
368 points by justincormack | 199 comments
AWS News Blog post announcing AWS Lambda MicroVMs, which let users run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control, built on Firecracker.
1348 points by xiaoyu2006 | 488 comments
Blog post recounting how an AI agent trying to join the DN42 hobbyist network to scan it ran up a $6531.30 AWS bill for its operator.
349 points by typpo | 121 comments
OpenAI product announcement that its frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS for enterprises.
808 points by andrewstuart | 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.
356 points by werner | 105 comments
Werner Vogels' All Things Distributed blog post on the launch of S3 Files, which makes S3 buckets accessible as file systems, and how S3 has evolved.
357 points by crcastle | 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.
545 points by ndr42 | 435 comments
Ars Technica article (via Financial Times) reporting Amazon will require senior engineers to approve AI-assisted code changes after AWS outages linked to AI tools.
486 points by Meetvelde | 217 comments
A blog post reviewing infrastructure choices the author endorses or regrets after four years running infrastructure at a startup.
675 points by jamesblonde | 594 comments
The Register opinion piece by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols arguing European companies should move workloads from US cloud providers to EU-native clouds.
632 points by Brajeshwar | 417 comments
The Register column by Corey Quinn reporting that AWS quietly raised EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML GPU instance prices by about 15% over a weekend.
376 points by huseyinbabal | 191 comments
GitHub repository for taws, a terminal-based UI for viewing and managing AWS resources, written in Rust and MIT licensed.
999 points by birdculture | 499 comments
Final Round AI blog post on AWS CEO Matt Garman's three reasons AI shouldn't replace junior developers and how AI should be used at work.
856 points by tartieret | 779 comments
Hacker News discussion thread where users report and discuss a Microsoft Azure outage affecting the Azure portal and services in multiple regions.
636 points by ndhandala | 432 comments
OneUptime blog post revisiting its AWS-to-bare-metal migration two years later, sharing updated numbers and answering questions from Hacker News and Reddit.
487 points by meetpateltech | 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.
372 points by kinj28 | 90 comments
Ask HN post where a user reports their AWS account was compromised after an AWS outage, with 600 instances spawned and SES domains verified.
889 points by raw_anon_1111 | 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.
2214 points by kondro | 2003 comments
AWS Health Dashboard service status page showing open and recent issues, linked in reference to a multi-service outage in the us-east-1 region.
1046 points by vvoyer | 542 comments
Reddit r/aws thread reporting a DynamoDB outage in us-east-1; the captured page is Reddit's network-policy block notice.
1005 points by pingoo101010 | 564 comments
A DigitalSociety blog post describing their migration from AWS and DigitalOcean to Hetzner, cutting cloud bills by 76% while tripling capacity.
338 points by todsacerdoti | 147 comments
A Big Data Stream newsletter article explaining how AWS S3 achieves 1 PB/s throughput and 150M QPS using commodity hard drives.
1576 points by JustExAWS | 693 comments
The Register article reporting AWS CEO Matt Garman calling the idea of replacing junior staff with AI 'the dumbest thing I've ever heard'.
327 points by ForHackernews | 86 comments
GitHub repository for pgactive, an AWS open-source PostgreSQL extension providing active-active (multi-master) replication.
974 points by QuinnyPig | 412 comments
Blog post announcing Kiro, a new agentic IDE in preview that works alongside developers from prototype to production.
345 points by tanelpoder | 127 comments
Communications of the ACM practice article by Marc Brooker and Ankush Desai on how AWS uses formal and semi-formal methods to ensure systems correctness.
581 points by aphyr | 138 comments
Jepsen analysis by Kyle Kingsbury showing Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL multi-AZ clusters violate Snapshot Isolation, exhibiting Long Fork anomalies across versions 13.15 to 17.4.
855 points by riverdroid | 345 comments
Truffle Security blog post describing a backdoor found in the Eight Sleep smart bed that allowed remote access, and how the authors removed it.
329 points by scbenet | 129 comments
AWS News Blog post announcing Amazon Nova, a new generation of foundation models available through Amazon Bedrock, introduced at re:Invent 2024.
500 points by Sirupsen | 146 comments
AWS announcement that Amazon S3 now supports conditional writes using ETags (put-if-match) to prevent concurrent overwrites of objects.
356 points by thunderbong | 215 comments
Blog post by Elliott King describing how following the official AWS Amplify guide led to an unexpected $1,100 AWS charge.
452 points by orliesaurus | 183 comments
An interactive globe visualization showing network latencies between AWS data center regions, using data scraped from CloudPing.
417 points by taubek | 361 comments
Medium article about Lidl's parent Schwarz Group building its own cloud to compete with AWS amid Europe's push for sovereign computing.
350 points by riv991 | 79 comments
A guest post on Werner Vogels' All Things Distributed blog by Marc Olson recounting the evolution of AWS Elastic Block Store and lessons learned.
590 points by memset | 140 comments
GitHub repository for SmoothMQ, an open source Go single-binary, SQLite-backed, API-compatible drop-in replacement for Amazon SQS.
546 points by tracebit | 199 comments
Tracebit blog post by Sam Cox describing a technique to find the AWS account ID owning any S3 bucket, public or private.
550 points by greghn | 370 comments
Database Architects blog post arguing that local SSD throughput has exploded with PCIe 5.0 while cloud instance storage performance has stagnated.
446 points by amzans | 278 comments
A reference page comparing data egress pricing, free allowances, and per-TB overage costs across major cloud providers.
980 points by slyall | 536 comments
A blog post reviewing infrastructure decisions the author endorses or regrets after four years running infrastructure at a startup.
493 points by jedwhite | 239 comments
Anthropic announcement of an expanded partnership with Amazon, including Amazon's investment of up to $4 billion and AWS collaboration.
339 points by fatfox | 164 comments
Fig blog announcement by Brendan Falk that the Fig team is joining AWS and Amazon has acquired Fig's technology.
348 points by serial_dev | 213 comments
Slack Engineering blog post describing the company's migration of its infrastructure to a cellular architecture to improve resilience against availability-zone failures.
410 points by realshadow | 335 comments
AWS blog post announcing a new charge for public IPv4 addresses and a Public IP Insights feature; the captured page rendered blank.
700 points by werner | 135 comments
Werner Vogels' All Things Distributed blog post on how Amazon S3 is built and operated at massive scale, from hard drives to organizational practices.
567 points by rurp | 256 comments
Hacker News discussion thread reporting an AWS us-east-1 outage with increased error rates affecting Lambda and IAM-dependent services.
456 points by mparnisari | 357 comments
Adrian Cockcroft's Medium post responding to takes on Amazon Prime Video's move from microservices to a monolith, discussing lessons learned.