An account of how a developer, Alexey Grigorev, accidentally deleted 2.5 years of data from his AI Shipping Labs and DataTalks.Club websites using Claude Code and Terraform. Grigorev intended to migrate his website to AWS, but a missing state file and subsequent actions by Claude Code led to a complete wipe of the production setup, including the database and snapshots. The data was ultimately restored with help from Amazon Business support. The article highlights the importance of backups, careful permissions management, and manual review of potentially destructive actions performed by AI agents.
The article discusses the increasing complexity of Kubernetes and suggests that Silicon Valley is exploring alternative technologies for container orchestration, citing a benchmark showing a stripped-down stack outperforming Kubernetes.
Amazon S3 Batch Operations allows you to process hundreds, millions, or even billions of S3 objects efficiently. You can perform various actions such as copying objects, setting tags, restoring from Glacier, or invoking AWS Lambda functions on each object without writing custom code.
AWS announces S3 Tables, a new bucket type for data analytics using Apache Iceberg format, and S3 Metadata for fast query of data, at the Re:Invent conference.
Explore how LocalStack serves as a drop-in replacement for AWS, allowing developers to test and develop AWS services locally.
AWS has decided to make their Valkey-based services significantly cheaper than their Redis counterparts. Valkey is the successor fork of Redis spearheaded by AWS and others, offering the same features and APIs but at a lower price.
Handle traffic spikes with Amazon DynamoDB provisioned capacity
by Jason Hunter
by Jason Hunter
