The CloudBeaver ECS tasks started crash-looping yesterday. We spent a few hours debugging an intermittent "password authentication failed" error in CloudBeaver running on ECS with an RDS PostgreSQL backend. The root cause turned out to be an undocumented interaction between CloudBeaver's config parser and special characters in auto-generated passwords. Here's the full investigation. The Symptom … Continue reading CloudBeaver on ECS: Why Password Authentication Fails Intermittently
Personalised AWS Daily Briefing and Podcast
Keeping up with AWS is hard - hundreds of updates every month. I'd scroll through the "What's New" feed trying to find what's relevant, but still miss things.So I built an app called "AWS What's New" to solve this for myself.It lets me set my interests, focus areas, and what I'm currently working on — … Continue reading Personalised AWS Daily Briefing and Podcast
Scratching My Own Itch: Turning Apple Health Data Into Insights
For a long time, I thought I was doing everything right. I tracked everything — workouts, calories, sleep, water intake, even alcohol consumption and reading habits. Like many people, I relied on Apple Health to store all my data. The problem wasn’t collecting the data. It was understanding it. The Problem With Tracking Everything I … Continue reading Scratching My Own Itch: Turning Apple Health Data Into Insights
Understanding how third-party query engines integrate with Lake Formation
Integrating with AWS Lake Formation allows third-party services to securely access data stored in Amazon S3–based data lakes. Over the past few days, I’ve gained several valuable insights from hands-on experience that I’d like to share. I will walk you through the end-to-end workflow illustrated above and highlight some key lessons and challenges encountered along … Continue reading Understanding how third-party query engines integrate with Lake Formation
AWS Bedrock AgentCore: Enterprise-Grade AI Agent Infrastructure for Production Deployments
AI-Generated Content Disclaimer: This blog post was created with the assistance of AI technology and based on official AWS documentation. While we strive for accuracy, please verify information with the latest AWS documentation and consult AWS support for production implementations. Some commands in the “Step-by-Step Setup” section are not based on actual documentation and have … Continue reading AWS Bedrock AgentCore: Enterprise-Grade AI Agent Infrastructure for Production Deployments
Jackie Chen's IT Workshop 