AWS Monthly (June ’25): S3 Becomes Your Vector DB
June saw a tectonic shift in the AI data stack with the preview of Amazon S3 Vector Search. For the last two years, we have been told we need a specialized vector database (Pinecone, Milvus, etc.) for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). AWS simplified the equation: “Just store your vectors in S3.” Technically, this adds a native…
AWS Monthly (May ’25): The Death of the War Room
May brought CloudWatch Investigations, which have fundamentally changed someone’s on-call rotation. Instead of manual log correlation, this service uses AI to perform Automated Root Cause Analysis (RCA). When an alarm triggers, Investigations automatically traces the error. It correlates metric spikes with concurrent events—like a specific Git commit, a Terraform apply, or an RDS parameter change.…
Automating AWS CloudWatch Log Group Tagging with Python and Boto3
Managing tags for AWS CloudWatch log groups is crucial for operational visibility, cost management, and effective resource organization. Tagging log groups manually can be cumbersome, especially when dealing with a large number of log groups. This article outlines a straightforward method to automate this task using Python and the AWS SDK for Python (Boto3). Importance…
Automating AWS ECR Tagging with Python and Boto3
Proper tagging of AWS resources is critical for efficient resource management, cost allocation, and auditing. If you have numerous AWS Elastic Container Registry (ECR) repositories, manual tagging can be tedious and error-prone. This article provides a simple and effective solution: automating the tagging of ECR repositories using Python and the AWS SDK for Python (Boto3).…
Automating ECR Image Cleanup with Bash
Managing container images in Amazon ECR (Elastic Container Registry) is crucial for keeping your registry clean and cost-effective. Over time, unused or deprecated images can accumulate, potentially leading to increased storage costs and operational overhead. One common scenario is removing images that follow a specific tagging pattern—in this case, any image tagged with versions following…
Update ECR Repositories with Bash Script
Below is an example Bash script that uses the AWS CLI to retrieve all your Amazon ECR repositories and then sets the image tag mutability of each repository to MUTABLE. Before running the script, ensure you have the AWS CLI installed and configured with appropriate permissions. Explanation This script automates the process of ensuring all…
AWS Monthly (April ’25): Cooling the AI Heat
In April, AWS gave us a peek behind the curtain of their data center engineering. To handle the thermal output of the latest AI clusters, they unveiled Direct-to-Chip Liquid Cooling. This is more than just a hardware curiosity. From a performance standpoint, liquid cooling allows for 3x higher compute density per rack. It ensures that…
AWS Monthly (Mar ’25): The Proximity Power Play
March was about the physical foundation of the cloud. AWS announced a $100 billion global investment, and for us, that translated into over 20 new Local Zones going live. Technically, this brings “Single-Digit Millisecond Latency” to almost every major tech hub. If you are building AR/VR backends, industrial IoT, or sub-millisecond telemetry systems, the “distance…
Streamline Your AWS ECR Management with This Powerful Bash Script
Managing container repositories in AWS ECR (Elastic Container Registry) can quickly become a daunting task, especially as your infrastructure grows. In this article, we’ll take an in-depth look at a handy bash script designed to automate the application of lifecycle policies to your ECR repositories. This script not only simplifies repository management but also ensures…