Posts tagged #aws

A rogue delete put a 200-resource CloudFormation stack into DELETE_FAILED. We took the surgical path instead of backup-and-restore and were back in two hours. Here's the technique and why AWS spreads it across two separate documents.

We were three months into a server-backed vector store redesign when AWS shipped S3 Vectors at re:Invent. Production traffic moved over the same day. Here's the story, the five options we evaluated, and what we'd pick again.

AWS Lambda Durable Execution broke the 15-minute wall. It also broke every deployment assumption you had. Here's the alias mismatch problem and how to fix it.