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Recently a Dutch hacker was able to take control of 4 million solar panel installations (FTM, Dutch and Euractiv, English). And this wasn’t the first time either something like this has happened (PV Magazine). As usual, huge thanks are due to the many beta readers and experts who helped improve this...

Find the revision dates, related releases, and important changes to the Amazon QLDB Developer Guide.

Discover the risks of AWS Account IDs. Learn how these 12-digit numbers can expose your cloud resources and why they matter for your AWS cloud security.

On June 27, 2024, a small number of users globally may have noticed that 1.1.1.1 was unreachable or degraded. The root cause was a mix of BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) hijacking and a route leak.

HAProxy 3.0 maintains its edge over alternatives with best-in-class load balancing. Ready to upgrade? Here’s how to get started.

Google Cloud shares details of an incident impacting one Australian customer's use of Google Cloud VMware Engine. Learn what happened and how we're preventing it from happening again.

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is a cloud-based email sending service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS), handling both inbound and outbound email traffic for your applications. It allows users to send and receive email using SES’s reliable and cost-effective infrastructure without having to p...

Uber migrated all its payment transaction data from DynamoDB and blob storage into a new long-term solution, a purpose-built data store named LedgerStore. The company was looking for cost savings and had previously reduced the use of DynamoDB to store hot data (12 weeks old). The move resulted in si...

How we built a performant, scalable, ACID-compliant, JavaScript-native database on FoundationDB.

Amazon MemoryDB for Redis is a database service designed for 11 9s of durability with in-memory performance. In this paper, we describe the architecture of MemoryDB and how we leverage open-source Redis, a popular data structure store, to build an enterprise-grade cloud database. MemoryDB offloads…

AWS is committed to supporting open source Valkey for the long term. We are adding Valkey support to our ElastiCache and MemoryDB managed database services and contributing to the open source Valkey project.

Terms seemed to grant an "irrevocable" right to commercialize any user content.

A list of egress costs for major cloud providers.

The blog describes all the steps required to safely migrate your Heroku PostgreSQL database to self managed PostgreSQL on AWS EC2 instance using logshipping method.

Describes high performance design patterns for Amazon S3.

Beginning today, all future versions of Redis will be released with source-available licenses. Read more on the blog.

Wasabi’s survey of over 1200 global IT and storage decision makers found that almost half of all spend was going to fees, rather than capacity.

Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in server farms to illustrate some of the diverse environmental impacts of data storage.

A staggering 12.6 million domains on TLDs controlled by Freenom (.tk, .cf and .gq) have been shut down and no longer resolve, leading to a significant reduc ...

Long considered the de facto approach to application architecture for cloud native services, microservices is starting to be refactored by cloud giants such as Amazon and Google.

.com is so out.

The new U7i instances are designed to support large, in-memory databases including SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server. Powered by custom fourth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids), the instances are now available in multiple AWS regions in preview form, in the US West (Oregon),...

Beginning on Thursday, November 2, 2023, at 11:43 UTC Cloudflare's control plane and analytics services experienced an outage. Here are the details

I originally posted this on Reddit so I could get a good sample of opinions from other engineers to see how they compared to mine before…

DigitalOcean's Status Page - Managed Kubernetes Service.

Back of the napkin math to estimate what your deployments will cost as you're building them.

Azure Database for MariaDB will be retired on 19 September 2025

We wouldn’t tolerate this with a database.

The Nuvem submarine cable will connect Portugal, Bermuda and South Carolina, and will be Bermuda’s first transatlantic fiber optic route.

Feature flags, sometimes called feature toggles or feature switches, are a software development technique that allows engineering teams to decouple the release of new functionality from software deployments. With feature flags, developers can turn specific features or code segments on or off at runt...

Data contracts bring data providers and data consumers together.

This paper appeared in OSDI'22. There is a great summary of the paper by Aleksey (one of the authors and my former PhD student, go Aleksey...