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