Amazon RDS costs are not fixed - they vary based on configuration and usage. Making informed configuration and governance decisions is key to optimizing costs. Graviton instances offer better price-performance for common databases, while storage costs can be reduced by decoupling performance from ca.. read more  

Amazon EMR Serverless allows users to run big data analytics frameworks without managing clusters, integrating with various AWS services for a comprehensive solution. The top 10 best practices for optimizing EMR Serverless workloads focus on performance, cost, and scalability, including consideratio.. read more  

NGINX ships an open-sourceAgentic ObservabilityJS module. It parsesMCPtraffic and extracts tool names, error statuses, and client/server identities. The module uses nativeOpenTelemetryto export spans. A Docker Compose reference wires upOTel collector,Prometheus, andGrafanafor realtime throughput, la.. read more  

Microsoft's Project Silica encodes data in borosilicate glass using femtosecond lasers, offering long-term storage for up to 10,000 years. This method overcomes traditional storage limitations and is cost-effective, though write speed remains a challenge. The research phase is complete, but no product release has been announced.

Amazon faced an outage, affecting tens of thousands of shoppers globally on Thursday afternoon. Downdetector reported a surge in complaints, peaking at 20,000 by 3:49 p.m. ET. The outage involved checkout and pricing errors caused by a software code deployment... read more  

Planned migration shifts the static site fromGitHub PagestoAWS S3. DNS moves toAWS.Djangostages on a subdomain before the main domain swaps. ATerraformauto-approve ran with no remote state. It destroyed productionRDS,VPC,ECS, and automated snapshots.AWSfound a hidden snapshot and recovered the DB in.. read more  

The note saysAIworkloads are bursty. They spawn parallel tool calls, pull multi‑GB model weights into RAM, and endure long cold starts (e.g.,vLLM,SGLang). Companies wrestle with a fragmentedGPUmarket and poor peakGPU utilization. To hit latency, compliance, and cost targets they adoptmulti‑region/mu.. read more  

The guide maps a five-stagematurity model— fromVisibilitytoFinOps Culture. It prescribes staged actions before commitment purchases. It recommends turning onCost ExplorerandAWS Budgets, enforcingtag policies, runningCompute Optimizer, testingGraviton, and usingCloudBurn/Amazon Qfor pre-deploy estima.. read more  

Draw.io MCPlinks theModel Context Protocoltodraw.io. It ingests structured input (text,CSV,Mermaid) and emitsdraw.io XML, PNG/SVG, or hosted links. Draw.io MCPruns as anMCP Tool Server, CLI, or Copilot skill. It drafts small graphs (<50 nodes) in seconds and stores diagrams inGitfor diffs andCI/CDau.. read more  

A report reveals Google Cloud'sAPI keysuse the same format for public IDs and secret auth. That overlap lets public keys reach theGemini API. New keys default toUnrestricted. Existing keys can be retroactively granted Gemini access. Google will add scoped defaults, block leaked keys, and notify affe.. read more