aws
Observability
AWS Status Monitoring the Right Way
AWS often confirms outages after your customers already feel them. Independent monitoring and alerting lets you detect provider incidents first and prove them later.
9 min read
AWS resilience guides
The evergreen playbooks behind our outage analyses - how to architect so the next us-east-1 event is a log line, not an incident channel.
Operations
A Practical AWS Chaos Engineering Guide
Chaos engineering finds the failures your architecture diagram hides. Here is how to run fault-injection experiments and game days on AWS safely, using AWS FIS.
10 min read
Architecture
AWS Auto Scaling for Reliability
Auto Scaling, health checks, and load balancing do more than handle traffic spikes: configured well, they absorb instance and AZ failures automatically. Here is how.
9 min read
Architecture
How to Survive a us-east-1 Outage
A us-east-1 event takes down half the internet because global services and control planes are homed there. Here is how to architect real region independence.
11 min read
Disaster recovery
The AWS Disaster Recovery Checklist
A step-by-step, game-day-tested DR checklist for AWS: dependency mapping, RTO/RPO targets, strategy selection, backup verification, control-plane drills, and the failover test most teams skip.
10 min read
Architecture
Multi-AZ vs Multi-Region on AWS: How to Choose
What Availability Zones actually protect you from, what only a second region can, and a cost/RTO decision framework - grounded in how real AWS outages (2017, 2021, 2025) actually failed.
11 min read