AWS’s us-east-1 faceplanted for 14 hours after arace conditioninDynamoDBkicked off a DNS meltdown, taking down 140 services. EC2 buckled under acongestive collapse, overwhelmed by a backup in DropletWorkflow Manager queues. Meanwhile, NLB health checks kept firing blanks - tricked by stale network s..

A plain-oldgit repo on an SSH-accessible servercan double as a lean deployment rig. Drop in somegit hooks- like apost-receive- and every push can kick off static site builds or publish code on the spot. No extra tools. Just Git doing Git things. Turns basic Git infra into a no-frills CI/CD pipeline...

Nanit ditched S3’s PutObject-heavy ingest path and built a customRust-based in-memory landing zone (N3). It cut ~$500K/year in storage ops. N3 grabs short-lived video chunks straight into RAM and only spills to S3 when it has to. Ordering stays tight thanks toSQS FIFO, and fallback kicks in clean wh..

A new stealth rootkit calledLinkProjust surfaced, taking aim at AWS-hosted Linux boxes. It blends two customeBPF programsfor deep concealment and remote activation via magic packets. The path in?CVE-2024-23897—an RCE on a public Jenkins server. From there, attackers slipped into Amazon EKS clusters,..

Learn how to manage secrets with the External Secrets Operator and plug it into Argo CD to power your Internal Developer Platform without manual management, enabling self-service secrets management and secure connections between workload clusters and the control plane. With a chain of trust between ..

Amazon apologized for a major AWS outage in the Northern Virginia region, caused by a race condition in the DynamoDB DNS management system, affecting services like DynamoDB, Network Load Balancer, and EC2.

SUSE releases Linux Enterprise Server 16, integrating AI to boost efficiency and cut costs, with features like secure AI integration and a 16-year support lifecycle.

Ubuntu 25.10 introduces support for amd64v3 architecture variants, enhancing performance by targeting specific silicon variants, with full support expected in the 26.04 LTS release.