Amazon EC2 Application Status Checks: Setup Guide and Auto Scaling Integration On August 12, 2026, AWS shipped a status check type EC2 has never had: one that actually asks your application whether it's healthy, instead of asking the VM. The existing system and instance status checks only tell you the hypervisor is …

Docker VMM Public Beta: What Docker's First-Party Virtualization Engine Changes On August 12, 2026, Docker shipped the public beta of Docker VMM — a virtualization layer it built and now owns end to end, replacing the third-party engines Docker Desktop has relied on since it first needed a Linux VM on Mac and Windows. …

GitHub Apps and OAuth Apps Get Refresh Tokens: How to Migrate Off Long-Lived Access Tokens If you've built an OAuth App or a GitHub App that authenticates on behalf of users, there's a decent chance it's still handing out a gho_ or ghu_ token that never expires. On August 14, 2026, GitHub shipped token rotation for …

Terraform AzureRM Provider 5.0: Breaking Changes and Upgrade Guide HashiCorp shipped AzureRM provider 5.0 on July 27, 2026 (a 5.0.1 patch followed shortly after), and it's not a routine version bump. If your Terraform configs have been running fine against 4.x for months and you run terraform init -upgrade without …

Web Search on Amazon Bedrock: Grounding OpenAI Models Without Building a RAG Pipeline AWS shipped Web Search on Amazon Bedrock this month — a built-in tool that lets supported OpenAI models pull current information from the web mid-request and cite their sources, without you standing up a retrieval pipeline, a search …

CloudWatch Managed Prometheus Collectors: Setup Guide for EC2 and ECS If you've been running your own OpenTelemetry Collector just to get Prometheus metrics into CloudWatch, AWS shipped the fix in late July 2026: managed Prometheus collectors. You hand CloudWatch a scrape config and a VPC connection, and it provisions, …

GitHub Copilot Added Kimi K3: How to Enable It (and Why GitHub Paused the Rollout on Day One) On August 6, 2026, GitHub shipped Kimi K3 — Moonshot AI's open-weight model — as a selectable model inside GitHub Copilot. Then, the same day, GitHub added an editor's note to its own changelog post saying it had paused the …

Terraform MCP Server Had a CVSS 10.0 Bug: Patch to 1.2.0 Now If you've stood up HashiCorp's terraform-mcp-server so an AI agent can query the Terraform Registry or talk to your workspaces, go check its version right now. HashiCorp Security Advisory HCSEC-2026-23, published July 28, 2026, covers three vulnerabilities in …

AWS App Mesh Is Being Discontinued September 30, 2026: What to Migrate To (and What Breaks) On September 30, 2026, AWS discontinues AWS App Mesh entirely. This isn't a maintenance-mode freeze like Bedrock Agents Classic — after that date you lose console access and API access to your App Mesh resources completely. If …

Docker Hub OIDC for GitHub Actions: Retire Your Stored Access Tokens If your CI pipeline pushes images to Docker Hub, there's a good chance a Personal Access Token (PAT) or Organization Access Token (OAT) is sitting in your GitHub repository secrets right now — valid for months, scoped broader than you'd like, and one …