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Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is the practice of provisioning computing infrastructure via machine-readable config files instead of manual steps.

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AWS's Well-Architected Agent reviews live accounts across 65+ services against goals teams declare

AWS opened a preview of Well-Architected Agent, a service that reads live accounts across 65+ services and ranks fixes against goals each team declares. The review becomes a job run against the real environment, and every fix comes back as code or commands for the team to apply.

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Evidence50
Adoption
Insufficient
Hype gap+30
Incentives75
Confidence65

Earlier coverage

  1. The nested OU format AFT documents fails on the three accounts Control Tower owns

    Build · September 15, 2026 · 1 publisher

  2. The bare Todo API's list route calls table.scan() and returns every user's rows to an anonymous caller

    Build · September 14, 2026 · 1 publisher

  3. The drift job that catches a console fix needs write access to the state lock

    Build · September 14, 2026 · 1 publisher

  4. A committed .github/copilot-instructions.md prepends a repository's invariants to every Copilot request

    Build · September 11, 2026 · 1 publisher

  5. Kubernetes v1.37 turns scale-to-zero autoscaling on by default

    Build · September 11, 2026 · 1 publisher

  6. Locking the EKS API to one IP left the worker node with no route to the control plane

    Build · September 10, 2026 · 1 publisher

  7. HCP Terraform charges rent on every security group rule in your state file

    Product · September 4, 2026 · 1 publisher

  8. CloudFormation delegates ASG instance replacement to the Instance Refresh engine

    Build · September 1, 2026 · 1 publisher

  9. HCP Terraform issues the agent a cloud credential that dies with the run

    Build · September 1, 2026 · 1 publisher

  10. Curator approval gates every record AWS Agent Registry shows a consumer

    Build · August 31, 2026 · 1 publisher

  11. ECS Express Mode bakes 5% of traffic for three minutes before it shifts the rest

    Build · August 29, 2026 · 1 publisher

  12. Pulumi points a security agent at its context graph to hunt cloud attack paths

    Product · August 28, 2026 · 1 publisher

  13. One provider block and an AMI filter: testing Terraform portability against on-prem hardware

    Build · August 26, 2026 · 1 publisher

  14. Cursor cloud agents can mint their own Vault login, and the static token goes away

    Build · August 25, 2026 · 1 publisher

  15. AWS puts a number on agent displacement: IaC authoring from 3-4 weeks to minutes

    Build · August 20, 2026 · 1 publisher

  16. CDK now validates every synthesized template, and your synth logs will say so

    Build · August 20, 2026 · 1 publisher

  17. Pulumi turns its Terraform-compatibility claim into a diff against tofu

    Product · August 15, 2026 · 1 publisher