Your SQS Queue Is Redelivering Messages Your Lambda Is Still Processing
Your order-processing Lambda starts sending duplicate confirmation emails. Not always — maybe one order in twenty. CloudWatch shows more inv...
Aug 3, 2026
5 min
AWS says it can't restore some data from Middle East facilities struck by Iran
AWS confirmed it can't restore its Bahrain cloud region or a UAE availability zone damaged by Iran-linked strikes earlier this year. Six mon...
Sep 17, 2026
4 min
Your Lambda List Was Silently Truncated at 200 — And Your AI Assistant Never Knew
Hook An AWS account with 240 Lambda functions runs infrawise analyze. The tool prints a clean summary: services detected, findings generated...
Aug 3, 2026
5 min
Stop passing around .env files: Python secrets from AWS SSM
I thought moving secrets to AWS SSM Parameter Store had solved our configuration problem. It solved...
Oct 24, 2026
8 min
Your cron job fires on the wrong day
There is no single cron standard. Eight dialects disagree on Sunday's number, alias support, and what the sixth field means — and the failur...
Jul 30, 2026
5 min
Building a Zero-Trust Internal API on AWS
A DynamoDB table, a read-only Lambda, an API Gateway locked to IAM auth, and an EC2 client with no SSH key: a full zero-trust internal API o...
Jul 26, 2026
6 min
LocalStack now requires an auth token: keeping it out of Git with Docker Compose
How I run LocalStack without committing LOCALSTACK_AUTH_TOKEN Updated October 2026: This...
Oct 24, 2026
5 min
One year of Envilder: from a CLI script to SDKs, push mode, and a website
This is a follow-up to my first post about Envilder, where I introduced it as a simple CLI to...
Oct 24, 2026
6 min
LocalStack now needs an auth token: getting it into Testcontainers without a .env file
Since March 2026, the LocalStack image won't start without LOCALSTACK_AUTH_TOKEN. Here's how I feed...
Oct 24, 2026
6 min