https://blog.itsdavidg.co/tags/ai-devops-agent/ Recent content in AI DevOps Agent on David Gomez - Technology & Business Insights Hugo en-us Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-11-aws-security-audit-cisco-fmc-flaws-exploited-to-steal-credentials-and-deploy/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-11-aws-security-audit-cisco-fmc-flaws-exploited-to-steal-credentials-and-deploy/ Cisco has revealed that three distinct threat clusters linked to ransomware and state-sponsored attacks have been exploiting two recently patched Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) vulnerabilities. The attacks leverage CVE-2026-20079 (CVSS score: 10.0), an authentication bypass vulnerability in the web interface of FMC software that could allow an unaut https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-11-ai-devops-agent-aws-systems-manager-now-diagnoses-more-issues-that-cause-e/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-11-ai-devops-agent-aws-systems-manager-now-diagnoses-more-issues-that-cause-e/ Today, AWS Systems Manager extends its diagnosis capability to identify six additional categories of issues that can prevent Amazon EC2 instances and hybrid-activated nodes from becoming managed by Systems Manager. An instance must be managed by Systems Manager before you can patch it, run commands, connect with Session Manager, or collect inventory, and whe https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-11-aws-cost-optimization-aws-lambda-recursive-loop-detection-is-now-available-in-eu/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-11-aws-cost-optimization-aws-lambda-recursive-loop-detection-is-now-available-in-eu/ AWS Lambda recursive loop detection is now supported for functions running in Europe Sovereign Cloud. Recursive loop detection automatically detects and stops recursive invocations between Lambda functions and other supported services, preventing unexpected billing caused by unintended recursive loops. Customers use event sources such as Amazon S3, Amazon SQ https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-11-devops-without-hiring-openai-agents-api/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-11-devops-without-hiring-openai-agents-api/ Article URL: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/agents-api/overview Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49649213 Points: 282 # Comments: 159 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-10-aws-security-audit-researcher-drops-new-microsoft-defender-poc-showing-shield/ Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-10-aws-security-audit-researcher-drops-new-microsoft-defender-poc-showing-shield/ The security researcher known as Chaotic Eclipse has dropped a proof-of-concept (PoC) for yet another zero-day in Microsoft Defender. The vulnerability, codenamed ShieldCrash, is assessed to be a patch bypass for CVE-2026-69414 (CVSS score: 7.8), also called ShieldBreak, which the researcher reported last month. "Microsoft has failed to properly patch Shield https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-10-ai-devops-agent-amazon-bedrock-managed-knowledge-base-now-supports-conflue/ Thu, 10 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-10-ai-devops-agent-amazon-bedrock-managed-knowledge-base-now-supports-conflue/ AWS announces the Confluence Data Center data source connector for Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, a fully managed retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) service. Customers running self-hosted Confluence Data Center instances can now crawl blogs and pages from their Confluence spaces directly into their managed knowledge base. Previously, bringing Confl https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-10-aws-cost-optimization-aws-lambda-now-supports-90-minute-function-timeout-on-lamb/ Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-10-aws-cost-optimization-aws-lambda-now-supports-90-minute-function-timeout-on-lamb/ AWS Lambda now supports a 90-minute function timeout for asynchronous and event source mapping (ESM) invocations on Lambda Managed Instances (LMI) , a 6x increase from the previous 15-minute limit. You can now run data processing, media transcoding, financial calculations, AI inference, and batch workloads on Lambda for jobs that require longer continuous ex https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-10-devops-without-hiring-microsoft-patches-record-974-flaws-including-two-exploited/ Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-10-devops-without-hiring-microsoft-patches-record-974-flaws-including-two-exploited/ Microsoft on Tuesday broke Patch Tuesday records by addressing an earth-shattering 974 vulnerabilities spanning its software portfolio, including two flaws that it said have been actively exploited in the wild. These include 723 flaws in Windows, 111 in Office and Office 2016, 62 in SQL, and 22 in Developer Tools. Of these, over 110 shortcomings have been as https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-09-aws-security-audit-webinar-learn-how-to-answer-are-we-exposed-faster-after-a/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-09-aws-security-audit-webinar-learn-how-to-answer-are-we-exposed-faster-after-a/ A major vulnerability is disclosed. The alert lands immediately. Then comes the harder question: Are we actually exposed? For many security teams, answering that means jumping between vulnerability scanners, endpoint tools, cloud inventories, SBOMs, repositories, and application data to build enough context to act. As AI accelerates vulnerability discovery a https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-09-ai-devops-agent-aws-announces-nx-plugin-for-aws-for-scaffolding-full-stack/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-09-ai-devops-agent-aws-announces-nx-plugin-for-aws-for-scaffolding-full-stack/ Version 1.0 of the Nx Plugin for AWS, an open source toolkit for scaffolding full-stack applications on AWS, is now available. AI assistants can stand up an application on AWS in minutes, but rarely get security, observability, and type-safety right in one pass. The plugin extends Nx, an open source, language-agnostic build system for monorepos, with generat https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-09-aws-cost-optimization-amazon-rds-for-mariadb-now-supports-community-mariadb-mino/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-09-aws-cost-optimization-amazon-rds-for-mariadb-now-supports-community-mariadb-mino/ Starting today, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports MariaDB minor versions 10.6.28, 10.11.19, 11.4.13, 11.8.9, and 12.3.3, the latest minors released by community MariaDB. In addition to operational improvements, these minor versions introduce support for post-quantum TLS (PQ-TLS) key exchange, providing you with post-qua https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-09-devops-without-hiring-openai-gpt-6-astra-is-now-generally-available-on-amazon-be/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-09-devops-without-hiring-openai-gpt-6-astra-is-now-generally-available-on-amazon-be/ Today, AWS announces the general availability of GPT-6 Astra from OpenAI on Amazon Bedrock. The latest and most capable model from OpenAI to date, GPT-6 Astra brings deeper reasoning and judgment, professional-quality writing and design, and advanced computer and browser use to demanding business workflows. It supports a context window of up to 1 million inp https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-08-aws-security-audit-adobe-patches-magento-zero-day-exploited-to-deploy-rust-ba/ Tue, 08 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-08-aws-security-audit-adobe-patches-magento-zero-day-exploited-to-deploy-rust-ba/ Adobe on Monday released security patches to address a maximum-severity flaw impacting Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, now tracked as CVE-2026-75650 (CVSS score: 10.0), has been codenamed StyleSmuggler by Sansec, which discovered zero-day exploitation starting September 4, 2026. " https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-08-ai-devops-agent-multi-agents-llm-financial-trading-framework/ Tue, 08 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-08-ai-devops-agent-multi-agents-llm-financial-trading-framework/ Article URL: https://github.com/TauricResearch/TradingAgents Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605822 Points: 76 # Comments: 51 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-08-aws-cost-optimization-amazon-ec2-p6-b200-instances-are-now-available-in-the-aws/ Tue, 08 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-08-aws-cost-optimization-amazon-ec2-p6-b200-instances-are-now-available-in-the-aws/ Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) P6-B200 instances accelerated by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs are available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region. These instances offer up to 2x performance compared to P5en instances for AI training and inference. P6-B200 instances feature 8 Blackwell GPUs with 1440 GB of high-bandwidth GPU memory and https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-08-devops-without-hiring-aws-weekly-roundup-claude-fable-5-1-on-aws-amazon-linux-20/ Tue, 08 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-08-devops-without-hiring-aws-weekly-roundup-claude-fable-5-1-on-aws-amazon-linux-20/ Last week, Claude Fable 5.1 became available on AWS. According to Anthropic, Claude Fable 5.1 delivers frontier intelligence for ambitious tasks across coding, scientific research, and enterprise workflows. Claude Fable 5.1 is built for long-running, high-stakes work that runs for hours and spans many applications. It can own more of a software project on it https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-07-aws-security-audit-rogue-screenconnect-clients-spread-four-stage-vbscript-cha/ Mon, 07 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-07-aws-security-audit-rogue-screenconnect-clients-spread-four-stage-vbscript-cha/ Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of worm-like activity that abuses ConnectWise ScreenConnect to distribute a malicious Visual Basic Script (VBScript) payload to newly connected systems. According to Huntress, three unrelated incidents have been found to use diverse initial access methods, namely a Quick Assist tech-support scam, a phishing-de https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-07-ai-devops-agent-speculative-decoding-in-vllm-on-amd-gpus/ Mon, 07 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-07-ai-devops-agent-speculative-decoding-in-vllm-on-amd-gpus/ Article URL: https://vllm.ai/blog/2026-08-23-speculative-decoding-amd-gpus Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49596054 Points: 42 # Comments: 12 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-07-aws-cost-optimization-amazon-ec2-now-supports-specifying-compatible-instance-typ/ Mon, 07 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-07-aws-cost-optimization-amazon-ec2-now-supports-specifying-compatible-instance-typ/ Amazon EC2 now enables AMI owners to define which instance types are compatible with their AMIs. Owners can specify supported instance types, unsupported instance types, or both — and any launch attempt on a non-permitted instance type is automatically blocked. AMI owners now have a built-in way to prevent launches on instances that are not compatible with t https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-07-devops-without-hiring-show-hn-engrim-a-universal-local-first-sqlite-memory-engin/ Mon, 07 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-07-devops-without-hiring-show-hn-engrim-a-universal-local-first-sqlite-memory-engin/ Article URL: https://github.com/timgordontg/engrim Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49594008 Points: 51 # Comments: 15 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-06-aws-security-audit-attackers-breached-jetbrains-cadence-via-unpatched-teamcit/ Sun, 06 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-06-aws-security-audit-attackers-breached-jetbrains-cadence-via-unpatched-teamcit/ JetBrains is urging Cadence users to revoke and rotate all credentials following a security incident last month in which unidentified threat actors exploited a recently disclosed critical vulnerability in TeamCity to breach its own environment. "Cadence users should immediately revoke or rotate all credentials and secrets that may have been used to run their https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-06-ai-devops-agent-amazon-bedrock-managed-knowledge-base-now-supports-automat/ Sun, 06 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-06-ai-devops-agent-amazon-bedrock-managed-knowledge-base-now-supports-automat/ AWS announces automatic sync scheduling for Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, a fully managed retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) service that handles data ingestion, storage optimization, and advanced retrieval without requiring you to manage vector databases or data pipelines. Previously, keeping your knowledge base current required manually triggeri https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-06-aws-cost-optimization-amazon-ec2-m9g-and-m9gd-instances-are-now-available-in-fou/ Sun, 06 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-06-aws-cost-optimization-amazon-ec2-m9g-and-m9gd-instances-are-now-available-in-fou/ Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M9g and M9gd instances, powered by AWS Graviton5 processors, are available in Europe (Ireland) and Asia Pacific (Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo) regions. AWS Graviton5 processors are the fifth generation of custom-designed CPUs, delivering the best price performance for memory-intensive workloads running on https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-06-devops-without-hiring-chrome-again-exempts-google-from-user-site-data-settings/ Sun, 06 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-06-devops-without-hiring-chrome-again-exempts-google-from-user-site-data-settings/ Article URL: https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/9/1.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49581870 Points: 458 # Comments: 74 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-05-aws-security-audit-critical-cisco-nexus-9000-flaw-lets-unauthenticated-remote/ Sat, 05 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-05-aws-security-audit-critical-cisco-nexus-9000-flaw-lets-unauthenticated-remote/ Cisco has released patches to address a critical security flaw affecting 10 Silicon One-based Nexus 9000 switches that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute code as root, alongside an IOS XR hardening release bundling 7 umbrella CVEs, 2 of which are rated 9.8, with no workaround for any IOS XR version. The Nexus vulnerability, tracked as https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-05-ai-devops-agent-amazon-bedrock-managed-knowledge-base-now-supports-service/ Sat, 05 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-05-ai-devops-agent-amazon-bedrock-managed-knowledge-base-now-supports-service/ AWS announces the ServiceNow data source connector for Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, a fully managed retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) service. Customers can now connect their ServiceNow instance to crawl knowledge articles and service catalog items directly into their managed knowledge base. Previously, bringing ServiceNow content into Bedrock K https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-05-aws-cost-optimization-amazon-ec2-c9g-and-c9gd-instances-are-now-available-in-asi/ Sat, 05 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-05-aws-cost-optimization-amazon-ec2-c9g-and-c9gd-instances-are-now-available-in-asi/ Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C9g and C9gd instances, powered by AWS Graviton5 processors, are available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region. AWS Graviton5 processors are the fifth generation of custom-designed CPUs, delivering the best price performance for compute-intensive workloads running on Amazon EC2. C9g and C9gd instances https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-05-devops-without-hiring-thousands-of-openai-agents-quietly-turned-an-abandoned-wik/ Sat, 05 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-05-devops-without-hiring-thousands-of-openai-agents-quietly-turned-an-abandoned-wik/ A group of AI safety researchers says a fleet of autonomous agents that identified themselves as OpenAI systems left about 18,000 posts on a dormant 25-year-old German wiki between May and July 2026, using the site as a shared board to pool answers to a timed web task and pass around a way out of their sandbox. The activity was concentrated on DSEwiki, a Ger https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-04-aws-security-audit-google-releases-chrome-update-to-patch-actively-exploited/ Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-04-aws-security-audit-google-releases-chrome-update-to-patch-actively-exploited/ Google on Thursday released security updates to patch 12 vulnerabilities, including one that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-85046 (CVSS score: 8.8), has been described as a type confusion bug in V8, Chrome's JavaScript and WebAssembly engine. "Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-04-ai-devops-agent-amazon-bedrock-agentcore-identity-now-offers-a-managed-con/ Fri, 04 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-04-ai-devops-agent-amazon-bedrock-agentcore-identity-now-offers-a-managed-con/ Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity now offers a managed consent portal that eliminates the need for custom OAuth callback infrastructure when connecting agents to third-party tools and services. Developers using AgentCore Gateway to connect agents with services such as GitHub, Salesforce, and Slack previously had to build, host, and maintain custom OAuth call https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-04-aws-cost-optimization-amazon-ecs-managed-daemons-now-support-non-critical-daemon/ Fri, 04 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-04-aws-cost-optimization-amazon-ecs-managed-daemons-now-support-non-critical-daemon/ Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now support non-critical Managed Daemons for ECS Managed Instances . You can configure a daemon as non-critical so that your mission-critical application tasks continue running uninterrupted, even when a daemon fails, stops, or becomes unhealthy. Amazon ECS Managed Daemons lets you centrally deploy and manage sof https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-04-devops-without-hiring-gpt-6-astra-scores-100-on-exploitbench-as-openai-blocks-po/ Fri, 04 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-04-devops-without-hiring-gpt-6-astra-scores-100-on-exploitbench-as-openai-blocks-po/ OpenAI on Thursday officially unveiled GPT‑6 Astra, which it described as the "world's most intelligent and aligned model." The development comes days after the artificial intelligence (AI) company said the model had reached the "Critical" cybersecurity capability threshold under its Preparedness Framework. "Astra is state-of-the-art on computer use, browsin https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-03-aws-security-audit-cisa-adds-seven-exploited-flaws-as-attackers-deploy-revers/ Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-03-aws-security-audit-cisa-adds-seven-exploited-flaws-as-attackers-deploy-revers/ The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added seven security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog after they landed in attackers' crosshairs. The vulnerabilities are as follows - CVE-2026-83548 (CVSS score: 10.0) - A server-side request forgery vulnerability in SonicWall SMA 1000 Appliances that cou https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-03-ai-devops-agent-amazon-quick-adds-new-tool-settings-and-model-context-prot/ Thu, 03 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-03-ai-devops-agent-amazon-quick-adds-new-tool-settings-and-model-context-prot/ Amazon Quick connectors let users leverage tools and services such as Outlook, Slack, Salesforce, Jira, and homegrown MCP servers directly into their workflows across chat, agents, apps, flows, and deep research. Today, Amazon Quick introduces new tool settings and MCP sync support that give admins and connector owners more control over how connectors are de https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-03-aws-cost-optimization-aws-config-now-supports-60-new-resource-types/ Thu, 03 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-03-aws-cost-optimization-aws-config-now-supports-60-new-resource-types/ AWS Config now supports 60 additional AWS resource types across key services including Amazon Bedrock, Amazon EC2, Amazon SageMaker, and AWS Organizations. This expansion provides greater coverage over your AWS environment, enabling you to more effectively discover, assess, audit, and remediate an even broader range of resources. With this launch, if you hav https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-03-devops-without-hiring-aws-lambda-now-supports-snapstart-for-container-image-func/ Thu, 03 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-03-devops-without-hiring-aws-lambda-now-supports-snapstart-for-container-image-func/ Starting today, AWS Lambda supports SnapStart for functions packaged as container images , reducing startup times from several seconds to as low as sub-second. Lambda SnapStart is an opt-in capability that makes it easier for you to build highly responsive and scalable applications without provisioning resources or implementing complex performance optimizati https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-02-aws-security-audit-attackers-exploit-two-sonicwall-sma-1000-zero-days-that-ma/ Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-02-aws-security-audit-attackers-exploit-two-sonicwall-sma-1000-zero-days-that-ma/ SonicWall has released security updates to address two security flaws impacting its Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 series VPN appliances that have been exploited in zero-day attacks. The vulnerabilities, discovered internally by SonicWall's William Perry and Adam Babis, are listed below - CVE-2026-83548 (CVSS score: 10.0) - A pre-authentication SSRF vulnera https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-02-ai-devops-agent-automated-security-response-on-aws-adds-ai-toolkit-for-cus/ Wed, 02 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-02-ai-devops-agent-automated-security-response-on-aws-adds-ai-toolkit-for-cus/ Today, AWS announced four new capabilities for Automated Security Response on AWS (ASR). Customers can now use an AI-driven Toolkit that generates custom remediations using any AI assistant with built-in safety guardrails. In addition, customers can automatically remediate findings from Amazon Inspector, Amazon GuardDuty, and Amazon Macie. Customers can also https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-02-aws-cost-optimization-amazon-cloudwatch-database-insights-now-supports-self-mana/ Wed, 02 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-02-aws-cost-optimization-amazon-cloudwatch-database-insights-now-supports-self-mana/ Today, AWS announces support for self-managed PostgreSQL databases in Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights. Using CloudWatch Database Insights, you can now monitor your self-managed PostgreSQL instances running on Amazon EC2, alongside Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora, to give you a complete view of your database fleet in a single console. Amazon CloudWatch Datab https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-02-devops-without-hiring-launch-hn-nori-robotics-yc-s26-a-low-cost-humanoid-robot-f/ Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-02-devops-without-hiring-launch-hn-nori-robotics-yc-s26-a-low-cost-humanoid-robot-f/ Hey HN, I’m Antonio from Nori Robotics ( https://norirobotics.com ). We build a $1,688 bimanual mobile robot in San Francisco for robotics developers and researchers. I started working on Nori while doing robotics research at Columbia. I was teaching robots through human demonstrations, but getting my hands on affordable hardware was difficult. Most labs hav https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-01-aws-security-audit-amazon-redshift-now-supports-aws-iam-identity-center-authe/ Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-01-aws-security-audit-amazon-redshift-now-supports-aws-iam-identity-center-authe/ Amazon Redshift now supports AWS IAM Identity Center authentication for provisioned clusters and serverless workgroups configured with enhanced VPC routing (EVR). You can access Amazon Redshift with single sign-on with your corporate credentials, and the traffic traverses Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) and stays on the AWS network. This is valuabl https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-01-ai-devops-agent-aws-agent-registry-agents-and-mcp-servers-now-available-in/ Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-01-ai-devops-agent-aws-agent-registry-agents-and-mcp-servers-now-available-in/ Today, Amazon Quick announces integration with AWS Agent Registry, enabling users to discover and use resources from their organization's AWS Agent Registry directly within Amazon Quick. AWS Agent Registry supports MCP servers and agents, which users can now search and browse directly within Amazon Quick. After finding the agent or MCP server they need, user https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-01-aws-cost-optimization-amazon-ec2-r9g-and-r9gd-memory-optimized-instances-are-now/ Tue, 01 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0000 https://blog.itsdavidg.co/posts/2026-09-01-aws-cost-optimization-amazon-ec2-r9g-and-r9gd-memory-optimized-instances-are-now/ Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R9g and R9gd instances, powered by AWS Graviton5 processors, are generally available. AWS Graviton5 processors are the fifth generation of custom-designed CPUs, delivering the best price performance for memory-intensive workloads running on Amazon EC2. 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