https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/tags/aws/Recent content in AWS on Yongjie XueHugoen-USWed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/db/aws-get-duckdb/Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/db/aws-get-duckdb/AWS bought the people who build the duck and left the duck itself to the foundation.https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/aws-me-bomb/Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/aws-me-bomb/On March 1, 2026, Iranian drones reportedly hit AWS facilities in the UAE and Bahrain. If the reporting is accurate, this may be the first public case of a hyperscale cloud provider suffering direct military damage to data-center infrastructure.https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/aws-postmotem/Fri, 24 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/aws-postmotem/AWS finally published the Oct 20 us-east-1 postmortem. I translated the key parts and added commentary on how one DNS bug toppled half the internet.https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/aws-dns-failure/Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/aws-dns-failure/us-east-1’s DNS control plane faceplanted for 15 hours and dragged 142 AWS services—and a good chunk of the public internet—down with it. Here’s the forensic tour.https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/ahrefs-saving/Wed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/ahrefs-saving/After Alibaba-Cloud’s epic global outage on Double 11, setting industry records, how should we evaluate this incident and what lessons can we learn from it?https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/s3-scam/Tue, 30 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/s3-scam/The dark forest law has emerged on public cloud: Anyone who knows your S3 object storage bucket name can explode your cloud bill.https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/s3/Tue, 26 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/s3/S3 is no longer “cheap” with the evolution of hardware, and other challengers such as cloudflare R2.https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/rds/Mon, 30 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/rds/Winter is coming, tech giants are laying off workers entering cost-reduction mode. Can cloud databases, the number one public cloud cash cow, still tell their story? The money you spend on cloud databases for one year is enough to buy several or even dozens of higher-performing servers. Are you paying an IQ tax by using cloud databases?