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AWS announced a new “project” onboarding flow that lets new users start building with default configurations, free credits, and simplified IAM handling. Sign‑in via Google/GitHub/Apple creates an isolated AWS account, auto‑provisions a CLI/agent toolkit, and lets you invite collaborators by email. Spend limits can be set per project, and advanced features (multi‑region, org policies) can be enabl…
AWS Elastic Beanstalk now offers a fully‑managed Cluster Mode that runs multiple applications on a shared Amazon EKS cluster, handling containerization, scaling, patching and observability automatically. It adds AI‑driven troubleshooting, OpenTelemetry support and standard deployment strategies while charging only for the underlying AWS resources.
A practical guide to refactoring a monolithic onboarding API into an event‑driven architecture using ASP.NET Core, AWS SNS/SQS (or EventBridge), the outbox pattern, and idempotent consumers, with concrete code snippets and operational tips.
The post describes a proof‑of‑concept DR setup for CloudBees CI on EKS using Velero with custom patches for cross‑region EBS snapshot replication, achieving 15‑minute RPO and sub‑hour RTO. It also outlines the required backup of $JENKINS_HOME, metadata, DNS switch, and the experimental nature of the patches.
AWS admitted it cannot recover data that was stored only in the damaged Availability Zones of its Middle East (UAE) and Bahrain regions after Iranian drone strikes. The outage highlights that AWS’s multi‑AZ guarantees only protect against localized failures, not regional destruction, and that customers must implement cross‑region replication to meet durability and data‑residency requirements.
AWS announced general availability of T8i burstable EC2 instances, which use 6th‑gen Intel Xeon and Nitro to deliver up to 30% better price performance and up to 70% higher compute than T3. They come in four tiny sizes, keep the same CPU‑credit model, and target low‑to‑moderate workloads.
The article walks through configuring Jenkins to launch EC2 instances as build agents on demand, covering AWS IAM setup, security groups, key pairs, AMI selection, and the Jenkins EC2 plugin configuration. It shows how idle termination can keep costs low while providing elastic build capacity.
