I dropped our production database and now pay 10% more for AWS
A Terraform command executed by an AI agent accidentally deleted the production infrastructure for the DataTalks.Club course platform, leading to a 10% increase in AWS costs during the restoration process. Plans include migrating the AI Shipping Labs website from static GitHub Pages to AWS and transitioning from a Next.js setup to a Django version.
alexeyondata.substack.com
16 min
3/6/2026
Amazon would rather blame its own engineers than its AI
Amazon Web Services (AWS) tends to attribute outages to human error rather than issues with its AI systems. The company faces challenges in maintaining transparency about its platform's reliability while managing perceptions of its technology.
theregister.com
6 min
2/25/2026
I dropped our production database and now pay 10% more for AWS
A Terraform command executed by an AI agent accidentally deleted the production infrastructure for the DataTalks.Club course platform, leading to a 10% increase in AWS costs during the restoration process. Plans include migrating the AI Shipping Labs website from static GitHub Pages to AWS and transitioning from a Next.js setup to a Django version.
alexeyondata.substack.com
16 min
3/6/2026
Amazon would rather blame its own engineers than its AI
Amazon Web Services (AWS) tends to attribute outages to human error rather than issues with its AI systems. The company faces challenges in maintaining transparency about its platform's reliability while managing perceptions of its technology.
theregister.com
6 min
2/25/2026
I dropped our production database and now pay 10% more for AWS
A Terraform command executed by an AI agent accidentally deleted the production infrastructure for the DataTalks.Club course platform, leading to a 10% increase in AWS costs during the restoration process. Plans include migrating the AI Shipping Labs website from static GitHub Pages to AWS and transitioning from a Next.js setup to a Django version.
alexeyondata.substack.com
16 min
3/6/2026
Amazon would rather blame its own engineers than its AI
Amazon Web Services (AWS) tends to attribute outages to human error rather than issues with its AI systems. The company faces challenges in maintaining transparency about its platform's reliability while managing perceptions of its technology.
theregister.com
6 min
2/25/2026
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