AWS Lambda Web Functions: 128 Requests per Environment
AWS Lambda Web Functions run Express or Next.js apps unchanged, with 128 concurrent requests per environment and CPU billing. What changes for serverless teams.
Amazon ECS GPU Auto Repair: How It Replaces Failing GPUs
Amazon ECS Managed Instances now swap out failing NVIDIA GPU hosts automatically. How the DCGM checks, Xid codes, and 20% drain cap shape AWS GPU reliability.
Pulling Multi-Gigabyte Container Images in Seconds on Amazon EKS
SOCI lazy loading cuts a 1.3 GB container image pull from 20 seconds to 2.8 seconds on EKS — with no image format changes required. Here's the mechanism and how to enable it.
How to Pull Multi-Gigabyte Container Images in Seconds on Amazon EKS
SOCI (Seekable OCI) lazy loading lets EKS pods start before the full image is pulled — cutting a 10 GB image from minutes to seconds. Here's how the technique works and how to deploy it.
Admission Webhooks Have a Bypass Problem — Runtime Verification Fixes It
A new NRI plugin moves supply chain verification below the Kubernetes API server, closing the static-pod and kubelet-bypass gaps that admission webhooks like Kyverno and OPA Gatekeeper can't cover.
Is a Kubernetes Pod the Right Deployment Unit for an AI Agent?
CNCF's kagent team asks whether Pods — ideal for long-lived microservices — are the right abstraction for AI agents that wake briefly, execute, and go idle. Their answer: probably not.
WebAssembly vs Containers: What WASI 0.3 Actually Changes
WASI 0.3 finalizes the WebAssembly component model, enabling 5–10x faster cold starts than containers. Here's what it means for platform engineering teams.