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AWS Introduces Free Sandbox Environments for Workshops

Renato Losio — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 04:49:00 GMT

AWS Builder Center now offers free, time-limited sandbox environments for workshops, so developers no longer need to use their own AWS account and credit card or worry about unexpected charges. This has been a long-standing request from the community and removes one of the biggest friction points for practitioners learning new AWS technologies.

By Renato Losio

AWS Lambda's Self-Managed Code Storage Lifts the Account Quota, Not the Function Size Limit

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:57:00 GMT

AWS Lambda can now reference deployment packages directly in customer-owned S3 buckets, removing the per-Region code storage quota and raising the managed default from 75 GB to 300 GB. Per-function package limits are unchanged, and UpdateFunctionCode is still required after replacing an object. Terraform provider support remains an open enhancement request.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

AWS Launches Amazon GuardDuty Investigation Agent to Automate Threat Triage

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 07:14:00 GMT

AWS released a public preview of the GuardDuty investigation agent, which correlates findings, 90-day activity logs, and resource topologies into structured reports with risk ratings, confidence scores, and MITRE ATT&CK classification. It is reachable through the AWS MCP Server, so investigations can run from agentic tooling. Preview quotas cap usage at 10 investigations per account per day.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Amazon EKS Adds Kubernetes Version Rollback within 7 Days of an Upgrade

Renato Losio — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 06:04:00 GMT

Amazon EKS has recently introduced support for Kubernetes version rollbacks, letting practitioners revert a cluster's control plane to its previous Kubernetes version within 7 days of an upgrade if issues arise. The feature reduces the risk of in-place cluster upgrades by giving teams a safety net to recover quickly from problematic updates.

By Renato Losio

How Zalando Built an In-Process Client-Side Load Balancer for One Million Requests per Second

Renato Losio — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 06:43:00 GMT

The engineering team at Zalando recently described the design and implementation of an in-process, client-side load balancer for a high-throughput API handling around 1 million requests per second. The result was more predictable latency, a drop in infrastructure costs, and better visibility into where failures actually originate.

By Renato Losio

Achieving Compliance as a Platform Engineering Team by Helping Developers

Ben Linders — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:42:00 GMT

When a new platform team set out to implement their roadmap through forced workflows with poor documentation, developer experience declined. Success came from simplifying governance, prioritizing what mattered, and rolling out compliance incrementally through prevention, detection, and communication. Empathy, focus, and shared purpose drove successful adoption.

By Ben Linders

AWS Billing Bug Shows Customers Trillion-Dollar Estimates While Its Own Cost Alarms Fail to Act

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:19:00 GMT

A configuration change in AWS's bill computation system showed customers estimated bills in the billions and trillions of dollars for over 24 hours. AWS's own alarms detected the anomalies but failed to halt bill generation or page engineers; customer escalations alerted the company 4.5 hours later. Budget and cost anomaly alerts were disabled platform-wide during mitigation.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers