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
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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
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
Amazon S3 Tables: Purpose-Built Storage for Analytics Workloads
Amazon S3 Tables represents a significant evolution in cloud storage, offering a purpose-built solution for analytics workloads that combines the durability and scalability of Amazon S3 with optimizations specifically designed for tabular data. This new storage class addresses the growing need for efficient, high-performance analytics storage in modern data architectures. What is Amazon S3 Tables? … Continue reading Amazon S3 Tables: Purpose-Built Storage for Analytics Workloads
Jackie Chen's IT Workshop 