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AWS PostgreSQL Upgrade Trap: Why a Forced Security Move Created a Costly Production Catch-22

#AWS #PostgreSQL #CloudComputing #RDS #AusNews #AIGenerated

https://thedailyperspective.org/article/2026-03-17-aws-postgresql-upgrade-trap-why-a-forced-security-move-created-a-costly-producti-ebfd4d4d

AWS PostgreSQL Upgrade Trap: Why a Forced Security Move Created a Costly Production Catch-22

AWS ended PostgreSQL 13 support, forcing upgrades that break its own Glue service. Customers face USD$30K annual charges or security compromises.

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RonDeSöder 1d ago

@dielinke Spinnsd jedds? Mia wissn scho wias gäd. #RDS

pgEdge Postgres 1d ago

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...all from a purely #PostgreSQL vendor w/ enterprise SLAs.

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Josh Lee 1d ago

AWS has 200+ services. Most companies use about 15. The same ones show up in every project: EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, API Gateway, CloudFront, SQS, SNS, CloudWatch.
That handles 80% of everything. Wrote a guide covering just the ones that matter.

#aws #cloud #infrastructure #EC2 #IAM #S3 #RDS #DynamoDB #Lambda #APIGateway #CloudFront #Route53 #SQS #SNS #CloudWatch #EKS #CDN

https://heyjoshlee.medium.com/the-80-20-of-aws-the-services-that-actually-matter-13509ff90115

The 80/20 of AWS (the services that actually matter)

AWS has over 200 services. That number is intimidating. You log into the console, see a wall of icons, and immediately feel like you need a…

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pgEdge Postgres Feb 3

We built a complete AI toolkit to help you be successful when architecting AI systems on PostgreSQL for production use. In it, we have #OpenSource tools like #MCP and #RAG servers & (much) more that work with:

⭐ Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor
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⭐ #PostgreSQL 16, 17, 18
⭐ Community #Postgres, Amazon #RDS, and other implementations

We'd love to hear about what you're building - community (at) pgedge.com 💬

#aidev #aiprogramming #programmer

Bitfoo Jan 31

First blog post is live 🚀
RDS restore was slow, CloudWatch looked fine — but I/O latency was ~35ms.

➡️ Root cause: EBS lazy loading from S3
➡️ Fix: pre-warming or Fast Snapshot Restore

https://blog.bitfoo.de/posts/aws-ebs-snapshot-s3-lazy-loading/

#AWS #DevOps #EBS #RDS #s3

AWS EBS Snapshot S3 Lazy Loading

Articles and stories about my life as a DevOps engineer.

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Bitfoo Jan 31

Erster Blogpost online 🚀
RDS Restore langsam, CloudWatch grün – und trotzdem 35ms I/O?

➡️ EBS Lazy Loading aus S3
➡️ Fix: Prewarming oder Fast Snapshot Restore

Falls ihr schon mal über „mysteriöse“ DB-Performance nach Snapshots gestolpert seid 👇

https://blog.bitfoo.de/posts/aws-ebs-snapshot-s3-lazy-loading/

#aws #devops #ebs #s3 #rds

AWS EBS Snapshot S3 Lazy Loading

Articles and stories about my life as a DevOps engineer.

Bitfoo's DevOps Site

UCD School of Philosophy Jan 24

Professor James O’Shea, Head of #Philosophy at @[email protected], talking at the Robert Boyle Winter School at Dublin #RDS on the nature of mind and matter. #PhilMind