Best of AWS — July 2025

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    Avatar of bytebytegoByteByteGo·40w

    How Cursor Serves Billions of AI Code Completions Every Day

    Cursor is an AI-powered code editor built on VS Code that serves billions of AI completions daily. It features real-time code autocomplete, AI chat assistance, inline editing, and background agents that work in the cloud. The system handles over 1 million queries per second using a distributed infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP, with privacy-focused codebase indexing through vector embeddings. Cursor integrates multiple AI models including GPT-4, Claude, and custom fine-tuned models to provide intelligent coding assistance while maintaining security through encryption and ephemeral data handling.

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    Avatar of awsfundamentalsAWS Fundamentals·44w

    How to Get Started with AWS in 2025

    A comprehensive guide covering AWS account setup, security configuration, and best practices for beginners. Covers creating AWS accounts, setting up multi-factor authentication, creating IAM users, configuring billing alerts, installing AWS CLI, and implementing security measures. Also introduces Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform and AWS CDK, AWS Organizations for multi-account management, and helpful tools for cloud development workflow.

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    Avatar of fireshipFireship·42w

    AWS just released its Cursor killer…

    Amazon released Kira, a new AI-powered IDE that competes with Cursor and other VS Code forks. Powered by Claude Sonnet 4.0, Kira uses a spec-driven development approach that emphasizes planning through requirements documents and design specifications before code generation. The tool aims to produce higher quality code by preventing rushed implementation and appears targeted at enterprise developers who value structured development processes. Currently free to use, Kira represents Amazon's strategic move to compete in the AI coding assistant market.

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    Avatar of bytebytegoByteByteGo·42w

    EP172: Top 5 common ways to improve API performance

    Covers five key techniques for improving API performance: result pagination for large datasets, asynchronous logging to reduce I/O overhead, data caching with solutions like Redis, payload compression using gzip, and connection pooling for database efficiency. Also compares REST vs GraphQL architectures, explains the differences between JWT tokens and API keys for authentication, outlines AWS tech stack components across nine layers, and describes five database index data structures that optimize query performance.

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    Avatar of architectureweeklyArchitecture Weekly·44w

    Dealing with Eventual Consistency, and Causal Consistency using Predictable Identifiers

    Explores how predictable identifiers (URNs) can solve eventual consistency challenges in file upload systems. Demonstrates using pre-signed URLs for direct client-to-storage uploads, implementing the 'magic folder' pattern for file organization, and maintaining system functionality during temporary inconsistency periods. Shows practical implementation of eventual vs causal consistency concepts through a construction documentation system example.

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    Avatar of freecodecampfreeCodeCamp·42w

    A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating an AWS Free Tier Account

    A comprehensive walkthrough for creating an AWS Free Tier account, covering the complete signup process from email verification to payment setup. Includes practical troubleshooting tips for common issues like payment verification failures, SMS problems, and card rejections, with specific solutions for users in Nigeria using virtual dollar cards.

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    Avatar of detlifeData Engineer Things·43w

    How I Built a Reddit Data Pipeline

    A comprehensive guide to building an end-to-end data pipeline that extracts Reddit data, transforms it using AWS Glue, and stores it in S3 for querying with Athena and Redshift Spectrum. The tutorial covers environment setup with Docker and Airflow, infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, and implementing ETL workflows with proper orchestration. Key components include Reddit API integration, AWS services configuration (S3, Glue, Athena, Redshift), and DAG development for automated data processing.

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    Avatar of techleaddigestTech Lead Digest·41w

    Figma’s $300k Daily AWS Bill Isn’t the Scandal You Think It Is

    Figma's $550 million AWS contract over five years represents about 12% of their revenue, which is completely normal for compute-intensive platforms. The internet overreacted to this disclosure, with many misunderstanding that enterprise AWS contracts include significant discounts and that real-time collaborative platforms require substantial infrastructure investment. Industry benchmarks show compute-heavy platforms typically spend 10-15% of revenue on cloud infrastructure, making Figma's spending reasonable given their 13 million monthly active users and 91% gross margin.

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    Avatar of faunFaun·40w

    Serverless Cost-Efficient CI/CD with Jenkins on AWS Fargate: Dynamic Agents and Persistent Storage with EFS

    A comprehensive guide for setting up Jenkins on AWS Fargate with dynamic agent provisioning and persistent storage using EFS. The tutorial covers creating ECS clusters, configuring task definitions for both Jenkins master and agents, setting up dual load balancers (ALB for web UI and NLB for agent communication), and implementing cost-efficient CI/CD pipelines that automatically scale agents based on workload demand.

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    Avatar of towardsdevTowards Dev·41w

    MySQL + CDC (without Kafka) to update configs in real-time

    A technical implementation guide for setting up real-time configuration updates using MySQL Change Data Capture (CDC) with Debezium in embedded mode, streaming to AWS Kinesis instead of Kafka, and updating Redis configurations. The solution uses AWS services like DynamoDB for offset storage, Secrets Manager for credentials, and ECS for deployment, with comprehensive monitoring through Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK stack.

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    Avatar of programmersarealsohumanProgrammers are also human·42w

    Cloud Architects in 2025

    A humorous take on the realities of cloud architecture in 2025, highlighting common pain points including Kubernetes complexity, escalating cloud costs, observability challenges, and the irony of supposed cost savings. The piece satirizes how modern cloud infrastructure often creates more problems than it solves, with bills in scientific notation and teams needed just to manage the cost-saving tools.

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    Avatar of postgresPostgreSQL·42w

    Autobase 2.3.0 released

    Autobase 2.3.0 introduces dark theme for the console UI, ability to import existing PostgreSQL clusters, export functionality to Ansible inventory, refactored Ansible Collection integration, and AWS Network Load Balancer support. This open-source DBaaS platform simplifies PostgreSQL cluster deployment and management with automated operations including failover, backups, and scaling.

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    Avatar of programmersarealsohumanProgrammers are also human·41w

    Interview with Senior DevOps engineer

    A satirical take on modern DevOps practices highlighting common frustrations including infrastructure complexity, cloud vendor costs, deployment challenges, and the gap between DevOps ideals and reality. The piece humorously critiques issues like Terraform complexity, DNS problems, monitoring overhead, security challenges, and the proliferation of tools that were supposed to simplify operations.

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    Avatar of laravelLaravel·42w

    How CMS Max Powers 500+ Sites with Laravel Cloud

    CMS Max migrated from AWS to Laravel Cloud to power over 500 websites after facing frequent crashes and operational challenges. Laravel Cloud eliminated infrastructure management headaches, providing zero-downtime deployments, automatic scaling, and built-in security features. The platform combines WordPress flexibility with Shopify simplicity, targeting both developers and DIY users. The migration saved thousands monthly and freed the team to focus on product development rather than server maintenance.

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    Avatar of netflixNetflix TechBlog·42w

    Behind the Streams: Three Years Of Live at Netflix. Part 1.

    Netflix built a comprehensive live streaming architecture over three years, handling events from comedy specials to NFL games and boxing matches. The system leverages dedicated broadcast facilities, cloud-based transcoding pipelines using AWS MediaConnect and MediaLive, the Open Connect CDN for global delivery, and HTTPS-based streaming with AVC/HEVC codecs. Key learnings include the importance of extensive testing, regular practice events, viewership prediction, graceful degradation strategies, and comprehensive contingency planning with dedicated launch rooms and game day exercises.

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    Avatar of faunFaun·43w

    How to Implement Robust WAF Protection for Web Applications: Block SQL Injection, XSS, and DDoS Attacks

    A comprehensive guide to implementing AWS WAF protection for web applications, covering deployment of a vulnerable test application (DVWA) on EC2, CloudFront distribution setup, and WAF configuration with managed rules for SQL injection and XSS protection. Includes custom rate limiting rules, S3 logging setup, and practical testing methods to verify protection against common web attacks.

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