AWS US-EAST-1 Outage (May 2026): What Happened, Why It Mattered, and Lessons for Businesses On May 8th, 2026, Amazon Web Services experienced another major outage centered around the highly critical US East (N. Virginia) region — better known to AWS engineers as us-east-1. The outage was traced back to what AWS described as a “thermal […]
Another milestone unlocked. I’m excited to share that I’ve officially passed the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03) exam. This certification focuses on designing cloud architectures that are secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient. It builds heavily on real-world problem solving and pushes you to think like an architect rather than just a developer. Also… […]
AWS Certified Developer – Associate certificate Areas I’m comfortable with after passing this certification: Domain 1: Development with AWS Services — Build integrations using managed services and event-driven patterns. Domain 2: Security — Apply least-privilege access, secure credentials, and protect data in transit/at rest. Domain 3: Deployment — Automate releases with CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code style […]
