Cloud
- Infrastructure in the Line of Fire: What the AWS Drone Strikes Actually Mean for SREs
Drone activity has disrupted AWS Bahrain twice in March 2026. Two strikes in one month is a pattern, not a one-off. What the confirmed recurrence means for SREs thinking about region risk, DR planning, and cloud vendor exposure in active conflict zones.
- When the Cloud Goes Down, 150,000 Drivers Can't Start Their Cars
A cyberattack on Intoxalock, a maker of court-mandated ignition interlock breathalyzers, knocked out its cloud services from March 14 to March 22, leaving drivers across 46 US states unable to start their vehicles. The incident is a case study in what happens when legally mandated infrastructure has no offline fallback.
- "No Network Access" Is a Promise. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Broke It.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter allows DNS queries even when configured for no network access. Amazon called it intended functionality. That framing deserves scrutiny.
- Microsoft's FedRAMP Authorization: Security Theater at Federal Scale
ProPublica's investigation reveals that FedRAMP reviewers internally called Microsoft's GCC High documentation 'a pile of shit' and couldn't verify its encryption practices -- then approved it anyway because it was already too widely deployed to reject. What the story reveals about compliance theater in enterprise cloud security.
- The Patch Gap Is the Attack Window: Google's Cloud Threat Horizons Report H1 2026
Google's Cloud Threat Horizons Report H1 2026 documents how AI-assisted attacks have collapsed the window from vulnerability disclosure to mass exploitation -- from weeks to days. 83% of cloud breaches started with an identity failure. AI agents are about to make that worse.
- Amazon's Kiro Took Down AWS for 13 Hours. The Fix Reveals a Bigger Problem.
In December 2025, Amazon's internal AI coding agent Kiro caused a 13-hour AWS outage while fixing a minor bug. The real story isn't the outage -- it's what Amazon's internal memo and subsequent response reveal about how AI-assisted changes are (and aren't) being governed in production.
- Europe Is Building Its Own Cloud. Here's What That Actually Means.
At MWC 2026, the European Commission unveiled EURO-3C -- a €75 million federated Telco-Edge-Cloud project backed by Europe's biggest telcos. Here's what it means in practice for engineers building global products.