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, …

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 …

Amazon Bedrock Agents Classic Enters Maintenance Mode: What to Do Before July 30, 2026 On July 30, 2026, AWS closes new-customer access to Amazon Bedrock Agents — the managed agent orchestration service that launched in November 2023. AWS has renamed it Bedrock Agents Classic and put it into maintenance mode. If you …

AWS CloudFormation Express Mode: 4x Faster Deploys and What It Actually Changes If you've ever sat through a create-stack that takes two minutes to provision an SQS queue with a dead-letter queue, or watched a delete-stack hang for 20+ minutes because a Lambda function still has an ENI attached, you already know …

Amazon EKS Kubernetes Version Rollback: How to Undo a Bad Cluster Upgrade On July 1, 2026, AWS shipped something EKS operators have wanted for years: the ability to actually undo a Kubernetes control plane upgrade. Until now, aws eks update-cluster-version was a one-way door — if you upgraded from 1.32 to 1.33 and …

Fixing MySQL Error Code 1419 on AWS RDS: Missing SUPER Privilege with Binary Logging Enabled If you’ve ever tried to create a stored function or trigger in MySQL on Amazon RDS and encountered the error below, you’re not alone: Error Code: 1419. You do not have the SUPER privilege and binary logging is enabled (you …

Today, I received a call from a customer. They wanted to restrict access to their public Network Load Balancer (AWS NLB), ensuring that only specific IPs could reach certain ports. As straightforward as this may sound, the situation quickly became more complex. Upon examining the NLB settings, I discovered that the NLB …

Introduction In this detailed guide, we'll walk you through the process of installing WordPress on Ubuntu 24.04 and securing the MySQL server to ensure the safety of your website's data. Prerequisites Before getting started, ensure you have the following: Ubuntu 24.04 installed SSH access to your server Installing …

Solution 2: Fixing Incomplete Kernel or System Package Installation Create an EBS Snapshot: Follow instructions to Create Amazon EBS snapshots. Open Amazon EC2 Console: Ensure you're in the correct Region. Stop Impaired Instance: Navigate to Instances, select the impaired instance. Choose Instance State, Stop instance, …