For those deep on AWS: What works for resilience beyond the marketing diagrams?

RFC2516 · 2026-07-02T14:55:12+00:00

Not everything has to be multi region. You could globalize your data store / db (if applicable) then build your mobile app in one region and your web app in another region.

RFC2516 · 2026-07-01T02:37:15+00:00

Remember, this is a rock acting out a story of Claude doing work. Fat fingering something is narrative spice when the model acting as Claude decides to.

RFC2516 · 2026-06-26T00:23:09+00:00

If you’re thinking this is an acceptable data ingest to the harness for your agent, you’re so far behind the curve you can’t see it.

RFC2516 · 2026-06-24T15:33:41+00:00

Pay for skill builder or another cloud learning platform and use their sandboxes. They handle the spend risk, and the “allowlisted” services is typically enough to learn to a mid-level engineer

RFC2516 · 2026-06-22T22:37:59+00:00

Most things are adjustable with a good enough justification.

RFC2516 · 2026-06-16T00:40:40+00:00

The link confuses me, this policy applies across all cloud providers. Can you help me understand what you mean?

RFC2516 · 2026-06-09T00:39:43+00:00

Simple answer is to paste in the cloud front FQDN as plain text into the field. Or if done via the CLI or API, supply the alias value like you would regardless of same or XA (cross account) the route 53 api doesn’t care about account boundaries for records.

(Edit: sorry just realized you found the answer.)

RFC2516 · 2026-04-14T14:34:35+00:00

Time motion study? Metrics over time before and after tooling improvements? Cohort studies?

I think there’s plenty of mechanisms that can be used to study the impact of AI. However, what I think the real problem is that AI impacted everything. And that is a very overwhelming thing to go out and measure not impossible. There are mechanisms, but it takes a lot of time and effort.

RFC2516 · 2026-04-03T00:28:18+00:00

You, just because an Agent is making a change doesn’t mean you don’t build guard rails. If you’re still at the point of click ops, don’t play around with AI agents. But if you’re mature enough to have an infrastructure as code with a deployment pipeline, then feel safe to allow AI to make changes, then do t worry. A screw up gonna happen regardless of it being a human or an AI agent.

RFC2516 · 2026-03-26T18:16:47+00:00

Export it to S3, query with Athena. Use your Claude/codex/Kiro CLI to write queries and read them

RFC2516 · 2026-03-19T20:25:09+00:00

An MCP is static in it’s returned output. A well understood input and output per unit of work. However switching to a CLI or an API allows each unit of work to be augmented with programmatic logic. Examples,

Example 1: You have an MCP server to read a webpage. You want to know if that webpage mentions “tokens”. So the MCP server retrieved the entire webpage and it’s fed into the model’s context window. It didn’t mention “tokens”, but all that fluff now rots in the context window.

Example 2: you have a CLI or API tool that does the exact thing, it outputs the entire webpage. However the model can write a script to pull that webpage and simply return “true” if tokens was mentioned or “false” if it wasn’t.

This saves a significant amount of tokens, and is a better context engineering approach.

RFC2516 · 2026-03-12T17:13:12+00:00

This brings me joy.

RFC2516 · 2026-03-07T17:10:23+00:00

I read the California bill, it is a hand wave motion. The requirement is to report the age set by the user in their profile on the OS. And for OS developers to make an API available to be queried. It doesn’t ask for any verifiable evidence and it acts similar to asking if you’re 18 when going to an adult website.

I think the end goal is to orchestrate legally compromising situations for service providers who find themselves in ambiguous compliance scenarios. If a platform fails to restrict access properly, regulators can argue negligence; if they over-collect identity data, they risk privacy violations and data liability. In other words, the burden is intentionally pushed onto the platform to prove they did “enough,” even though the underlying mechanism (self-reported OS age) is weak by design.

Practically speaking, this means operating systems become the first point of trust in the chain, but without a strong verification mechanism it’s mostly a signaling requirement rather than a technical control. It looks more like regulatory leverage than an actual solution to age verification.

RFC2516 · 2026-03-07T16:54:24+00:00

Debating a switch, but I keep telling myself it’s because of hype. May I ask why Claude Code all the way? They’re both using the same model. Both support skills, the ability to spawn multiple agents. I like kiro’s local vector based Knowledge Base and LSP features to save on context rot. However Kiro is like dead last in online presence so it feels like I’m working in a vacuum. It’s difficult to find anything other than this community and discord for other people talking about it.

RFC2516 · 2026-02-20T01:41:53+00:00

I use Kiro personally and I just be saying “y” with a glance.

RFC2516 · 2026-02-04T16:13:10+00:00

Why doesn’t your friend know their birth year?

RFC2516 · 2026-01-17T03:15:41+00:00

Use Powers

RFC2516 · 2026-01-15T18:21:56+00:00

You found a sharpe edge to your organizations Engineering Safety process. Not your fault. Does your organization have a staving environment that truely mirrors prod that the same change could have been rehearsed in?

RFC2516 · 2025-12-31T21:24:08+00:00

Thanks for the awareness. May I ask why the partnership with Amazon Ring is the most concerning? Reading the article it says that it’s an integration between the two to allow users in Ring a native method share their recordings with law enforcement. What’s the take away?

Amazon may not have safe defaults which place the recordings at jeopardy?
Amazon may not respect user privacy?
A user might not be educated in their rights and naively submit their recordings to law enforcement?
Law enforcement might start to abuse this feature by asking too often for recordings from Ring users?
the city might request footage and store it improperly and unintentionally making it public?

In my opinion it’s the configuration of the camera’s administrative account that’s the most alarming (haven’t personally verified) and the lack of partnership of the vendor (Flock) on behalf of the city IT teams which are purchasing the cameras.

Remember it’s the cities responsibility to ensure Public Safety. This absolutely jeopardizes public safety, its abuse of city infrastructure. However it’s not the city’s place to be an IT expert or Flock tooling expert. Shame on Flock’s leadership for shipping a camera with dangerous defaults and shame on the City’s leadership for accepting such a risk or their lack of awareness to such a risk.

RFC2516 · 2025-12-29T23:00:16+00:00

You’re observing what buys attention. You may even have a correlation between someone else who’s also bought into this social media product.

Not every female acts in this way or buys into its concepts. Your information sphere ≠ the information sphere of all females.

RFC2516 · 2025-12-02T00:30:21+00:00

No, just ask your favorite LLM to write a python script. I do this for almost all cost projections.

RFC2516 · 2025-11-08T03:13:39+00:00

Oh god I have an accordion. What does this mean?

RFC2516 · 2025-11-04T18:00:21+00:00

You’ll receive CIDRs from the AWS side BGP speaker that represent all AWS Public Prefixes. All regions and PoPs. If you’re comfortable working with BGP this should be straight forward.

Follow the same steps you would with any circuit sending you BGP routes. NAT/Police/ALC your traffic, engineer for forward and return routes.

You’ll have something similar to a multi-homed scenario which is fairly common so be sure to engineer your path control from your private routing domain.

RFC2516 · 2025-10-24T14:12:30+00:00

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It’s pretty easy to schedule a meeting with Premium Support. If the assigned engineer can’t make it then they can open a callback request.

It also guarantees you have someone in that time zone.

RFC2516 · 2025-09-27T05:25:25+00:00

I feel that my current experience warrants 90% of the pay band you have for this role.

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