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    10 articles tagged AWS, newest first.

    Kubernetes
    AWS
    Tooling
    Community

    New r/kubernetes Policy: Share New Tools in the Weekly Thread

    The r/kubernetes moderators now require new tool announcements to go in a weekly thread. Members debate spam, AI slop and how new projects get seen.

    March 3, 2026
    4 min read read
    AWS
    Cloud
    DevOps

    The Day Objects Took Down the AWS UAE Region and Shook DevOps Faith

    A fire caused by objects striking an AWS data center in the UAE disrupted ME-CENTRAL-1 services and reopened the multi-AZ vs multi-region debate.

    March 2, 2026
    9 min read read
    Kubernetes
    AWS
    ECS
    EKS
    Cloud Migration

    From ECS to EKS: Practical Migration Lessons

    Moving from ECS to EKS is a common progression with real complexity. This guide covers common migration issues and how teams handle them.

    November 23, 2025
    7 min read read
    AWS
    EKS
    Kubernetes
    Backup
    AWS Backup
    Disaster Recovery
    DevOps
    Cloud

    AWS Backup Adds Native Amazon EKS Support: No More Backup Scripts

    AWS Backup now supports Amazon EKS natively, backing up cluster state and persistent volumes without custom scripts or Velero. What users think so far.

    November 10, 2025
    10 min read
    Cloud
    Migration
    AWS
    Azure
    Cost
    Infrastructure

    Cloud First, Regret Later: IT Pros on What Happens After Migration

    IT pros explain why cloud migrations often cost more: lift and shift, hidden fees, OPEX accounting, when cloud pays off, and de-cloudification.

    November 9, 2025
    12 min read
    AWS
    cloud
    GovCloud
    outage
    infrastructure

    AWS GovCloud vs Commercial Cloud After the us-east-1 Outage

    Why AWS GovCloud stayed up when us-east-1 went down, why some federal users still had problems, and what the outage says about cloud dependencies.

    October 25, 2025
    8 min read
    AWS
    Cloud
    Outage
    Infrastructure
    DynamoDB
    EC2

    Inside AWS's October Outage and What Went Wrong

    How a DynamoDB DNS race condition disrupted AWS us-east-1 for over 14 hours, hitting EC2, NLB, Lambda and Connect, and what AWS is changing.

    October 24, 2025
    8 min read read
    AWS
    Cloud
    Multi-Region
    Failover
    Infrastructure
    Outage

    Multi-Region Failover: Why It Is Harder Than the Diagrams Suggest

    After the AWS US-East-1 outage, engineers Googled multi-region failover. Cost, vendor dependencies and unrehearsed plans make it harder than diagrams show.

    October 21, 2025
    7 min read read
    AWS
    Cloud
    Outage
    DNS
    US-EAST-1
    Infrastructure

    AWS us-east-1 Outage: Why Concentration Risk Still Matters

    A DynamoDB DNS failure took down AWS US-EAST-1 and 82 services, from Slack to Ring. Why one region is still the cloud's biggest single point of failure.

    October 20, 2025
    9 min read read
    AWS
    Cloud
    Outage
    Internet
    US-EAST-1
    Infrastructure

    When the Cloud Breaks: How One AWS Outage Took Down Half the Internet

    The October 20 AWS us-east-1 outage took down Amazon, Slack, Fortnite, Duolingo and more, and showed how much of the internet depends on one region.

    October 20, 2025
    8 min read read

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