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Agent Auth on AWS: OIDC In, Access Keys Out

Agents on AWS should never hold long-lived keys. How OIDC federation, IRSA, Roles Anywhere, and AgentCore Identity turn signed proof into temporary credentials.

Jul 21, 2026 7 min

Agent Toolkit for AWS: The Docs Have a New Reader

AWS shipped the Agent Toolkit: an MCP server, curated skills, and IAM guardrails for coding agents. The primary reader of AWS docs is not human anymore.

Jul 20, 2026 4 min

FinOps: Budget Alerts with Terraform Before Your Next $2.5B AWS Bill

The July 17 Cost Explorer bug filled every feed with billion-dollar AWS bills. Ten lines of Terraform give you the budget alerts that caught it first.

Jul 17, 2026 6 min

Testing the Assumption Nobody Tests

AWS FIS can fail a zone and only approximate losing the control plane. How to run the game day, what to measure, and an honest scorecard for the series.

Jul 15, 2026 12 min

The Fix Shares Fate With the Outage

Lambda 2023, the DynamoDB DNS event, Azure's February control-plane failure: why recovery paths die with the incident, plus a lab measuring static stability.

Jul 01, 2026 12 min

AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Serverless Gets a Stateful, Isolated Sandbox

AWS Lambda MicroVMs bring VM-level isolation, snapshot-fast launch, and suspend-resume state to serverless. What changes, and where the Firecracker primitive fits.

Jun 23, 2026 5 min

Two Zones, Eighteen Hours, One Cause

Drone strikes put AWS's me-central-1 region into months of recovery and its DR advice was: restore into Europe. Plus a lab mapping AZ names to real IDs.

Jun 17, 2026 12 min

AWS Multi-party Approval for Organizations

Multi-party approval in AWS Organizations gates high-risk operations behind a quorum of human approvers. Here is how it works and the security it buys.

Jun 13, 2026 6 min

AZ Isolation Held. Your Architecture Didn't.

A cooling failure killed racks in one us-east-1 zone and a quorum died with them. What the blast radius promise covers, plus a read-only detector for it.

Jun 03, 2026 10 min