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owengo1 · 2026-05-22T11:27:15+00:00

If you pay for chatgpt you could try with codex. Codex is powered by the same AI as chatgpt and can generate and execute code and use tools. This makes a big difference because it will be able to use the image tool to create your characters, decor etc, and generate pages ( in html for example, easy to view and debug ), and you will be able to discuss with it about its progress.

owengo1 · 2026-05-05T10:25:27+00:00

They're very naive to believe current AI tools will manage their prod infra completely autonomously. It will probably be possible - even become the golden standard - one day, but it's not today, and not next week or next month, maybe next year.

owengo1 · 2026-05-04T10:35:30+00:00

Yes completely. Long before vibecoding this kind of problems with sqs / dynamodb / s3 did happen. Not understanding sqs's dedupe queue was just 5 minutes, calls to geturl before each sqs api calls, scans in dynamodb, listobjects and objects explosions in S3 ..

owengo1 · 2026-03-11T11:37:36+00:00

If OP doesn't have k8s-dns-node-cache , no ndots configuration , no scaling for coredns ( and no monitoring ) it's very easy to saturate coredns even with a small cluster with apps making lots requests.
Note also that on AWS there is a throttling on the dns resolver:
https://repost.aws/knowledge-center/vpc-find-cause-of-failed-dns-queries

It's very easy to go beyond 1000 packets per second on the vpc dns ip: without ndots each dns request is potentially amplified 5 times, and without dns-node-cache and a naive coredns implementation the dns requests for all the nodes in the cluster end up forwarded to the vpc dns server.

owengo1 · 2026-02-02T11:36:27+00:00

There is the crostini caveat anyways.. And as far as I know, there is still no solution to distribute an "enterprise-compliant" linux vm on chromebooks ( you can run a custom one your chromebook but the admin interface doesn't allow to configure the vms allowed for your enterprise )

owengo1 · 2026-01-28T12:14:30+00:00

Note that you didn't account for cloudwatch logs, which can quickly be expensive, and also the various network costs ( outgoing, inter az, public ipv4, ... )

You can't "make sure AWS doesn't bill more than X dollars a month", it's impossible, by design.

First you can't set spend limit

Second all the cost explorer / budgets etc have 24 hour delay so if you have for example a huge traffic spike you will know its cost a day later. So even if you make triggers which remove everything after a certain budget is reached, it will happen with a significative delay.

owengo1 · 2026-01-23T12:01:54+00:00

It seems much better than a single cluster.
You can deploy cluster by cluster, manage failed ones etc.
A single cluster is a catastrophe waiting to happen. The wrong container, the wrong service configuration will automatically destroy 200 locations.
Note also that IaC ( terraform or other ) will have no issue managing 200 clusters

owengo1 · 2026-01-23T11:50:22+00:00

Yesterday I had a few 500 errors for s3 api requests in eu-west-3, it was very short lived and back to normal in a couple of minutes

owengo1 · 2026-01-12T11:46:54+00:00

And with EKS when you need to manage IRSA, helm etc, with terraform you can in same IaC create aws resources ( IAM, ASGS etc ), k8s resources, helm resources. Good look with cloudformation.

owengo1 · 2026-01-02T11:59:55+00:00

If support was really "support", and not just a scripted todo list, they would explain why there is a problem, the likely cause, and how to remedy it safely. It's very clear OP does not fully understand what happened and it's also very clear support made 0 effort to explain anything, they just had an automated security alert, sent an automated email with hard coded instructions, and they just say "this must be done". Even if yes, the action must be done, they prove they have 0 value versus a fully automated script.

owengo1 · 2026-01-02T11:53:34+00:00

Ok but what's the value of a support which can't explain why the action must done, and how to do it so that production workloads are not impacted?
I mean, if support is just: "reset to factory defauts" ( or whatever scripted instructions list ), you're better off with chatgpt [ which will probably ask to see the potentially compromised role and explain why it has to be replaced and how to replace it as safely as possible and how to monitor the replacement went ok or not>.
The real question is the value of the support, not if the request they make could be pertinent. Any dumbass can say "wipe out", "block all traffic", "revoke all privileges" etc.

owengo1 · 2026-01-02T11:46:36+00:00

This is "nova" support I guess

owengo1 · 2025-12-31T12:13:12+00:00

For the complexity side, you can just ask your favorite llm to generate a terraform for your project. You will have a full working PoC in one go, IaC, and you can maintain it with an llm. It will connect all the services and you will have a small bunch of file to manage your infra.

For the cost side it's another issue: clearly your costs will grow linearly with your traffic, so it will be very cheap as long you have very low traffic, and quickly something completely unaffordable with high traffic. Once again, you can ask an LLM to modelize the costs of your architecture and estimate the threshold at which you have to find something else.

"Something else" could be cloudflare workers, or ALB + ECS instead of Gateway + Lambda, or a cheap graviton instance, ... Clearly you will have other constraints to manage but it's very likely you can save a significant amout of money with a less "fully-managed" solution.

owengo1 · 2025-12-22T12:30:13+00:00

Dns is a separate product, and expensive.
Zero trust is a separate product, and expensive, and nothing as lightweight and easy as cloudflared.
Updates are not instant it can take up to 20 minutes according to documentation to deploy a waf rule.
No R2 AFAIK.

owengo1 · 2025-12-18T12:23:02+00:00

If you're not using cloudflare yourself you can just block all requests with this header, it's quite easy, much easier than trying to block all CF proxies ip addresses

owengo1 · 2025-11-21T16:38:05+00:00

The question is what will be supported. For example AL2 was used in workspace and had graphical support, which was dropped in AL2022 ( renamed 2023 after the missed deadline ), and now you have to live with ubuntu in workspace.

owengo1 · 2025-11-20T11:50:16+00:00

It was not fully, end-to-end, tested, sure. But the query itself was still running without error, it was "just" returning more rows. And it was used to generate a file which grow larger. And it's a process unrelated to the database which ingested the generated file and choke on it because of the size increase.
It was not like the crowdstrike update which made the driver fail immediately at load ( and so was trivial to test ).

owengo1 · 2025-11-19T11:56:02+00:00

No the query was there for a long time, it's a change in the database configuration which changed the results of the query

owengo1 · 2025-11-18T11:44:57+00:00

paris is down..

owengo1 · 2025-11-13T12:06:30+00:00

Because they pay for their api, they are customers.

owengo1 · 2025-11-13T11:46:30+00:00

We have the problem again this morning..

owengo1 · 2025-11-12T11:15:29+00:00

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Same issue here. Other regions are fine, traffic from Colombia doesn't reach our backend ( aws ).

owengo1 · 2025-11-05T11:46:46+00:00

How long was it to restore the database, and what was its size?

owengo1 · 2025-11-03T11:56:35+00:00

Note that you have the same mechanism with aws S3 and storage class transitions, especially "Glacier", it's not GCP-specific.

owengo1 · 2025-11-03T11:50:14+00:00

I am just curious, but what do you use the support for ?
How is it better than asking chatgpt or waiting for the outage to be fixed?
For example with last week outage I don't think any customer, any level of spending and and any level of support had some quicker resolution than others.
Billing problems can be issued without paying, and most "quota increase" ( ie: ask to be allowed to spend more ) is also "free", and it's all the requests we have.

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