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AWS's managed relational database service, running engines including PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle and SQL Server on provisioned instances.
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AWS published CVE-2026-87911, a CVSS 9.6 command injection in its own postgres-mcp-server, where one COPY ... TO PROGRAM line runs a shell on the host. The read-only promise lives in a regex filter that lets the COPY keyword through.
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Django's icontains made Postgres filter UPPER(product_name) while a team's pg_trgm index covered the raw column, so product searches ran for several seconds. Having the indexes proved nothing until the team read the generated SQL beside the query plan.
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Databricks says Lakebase restores Postgres in seconds even at 100 TB by creating a branch at a timestamp. The figure times branch creation, so it matches a finished RDS restore only if that branch serves production reads at once.
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Schemity's developer showed that a PostgreSQL role with only CONNECT and USAGE reads the full schema from pg_catalog while every table SELECT fails. Diagram tools built on information_schema show that same role an empty database.
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A dev.to account traces missing adgroup data for a platform's largest clients to the count query behind a page index, and its case that AI agents need stable cursors rests on the same four-year-old incident.
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Taking the password out of a Lambda's environment variables costs five console steps and one inline rds-db:connect policy, and buys a database credential that expires fifteen minutes after boto3 mints it.
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AWS fixed an SSRF in SSM Agent 3.3.4851.0. How much the bug actually gave an attacker depends on your IAM layout, and CloudTrail's StartSession records already show who called the vulnerable document.
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Savings Plans price a spend rate you owe in every hour of the term. Reserved Instances price a configuration you might migrate off, and a dev.to framework sets out which one a given workload should buy.
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The ingress-to-pod hop needs one nginx annotation and a pod that can serve TLS; the database hop needs one client flag. Pod-to-pod is the hop the dev.to inventory can only close with a mesh, and that is where the money goes.
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A Savings Plan and a Reserved Instance buy the same discount ceiling. Only one of them follows your workload. The residual RI portfolio now comes down to Redshift nodes and OpenSearch.
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Terraform applies the repository, not your merge request, so deploy duty means carrying a neighbouring team's encryption flag into a resource that has no in-place path for it; the disclosure sits on line 267 of a 427-line plan.
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A dev.to post lists four ways the standard stop-the-dev-instances script fails past a few hundred instances. The one that produces an outage rather than a quiet leak is the ordering a flat list of instance IDs cannot express.
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A public database, a 0.0.0.0/0 rule and a wildcard IAM role all get filed as risk. Only one of them shows up on this month's invoice, and that changes who can champion the fix.
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A dev.to post prices never-expire CloudWatch retention, missing S3 lifecycle rules and inherited RDS Multi-AZ, and gives the CLI query that finds each one in your account.
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A dev.to breakdown pairs each idle AWS resource type with a measurement window and a monthly list price. Eleven such resources add up to about $1,016 a month.
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An AWS Builders writeup deploys the standard answer to a tight RPO/RTO plus 30-day rotation brief, then lists the preconditions tutorials skip. RDS Proxy needs 2 vCPUs, and it gates both requirements.
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