Platform Engineering Monthly — August 2025
Welcome to the twenty-first edition of Platform Engineering Monthly! Suggestions or ideas for the next edition? Let me know!
📰 News
AWS in 2025: The Stuff You Think You Know That’s Now Wrong — What’s new in AWS (as in, in the last 20 years)? The highlight: “us-east-1 is no longer a merrily burning dumpster fire of sadness and regret.”
🔗 https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/aws-in-2025-the-stuff-you-think-you-know-thats-now-wrong/AWS CEO on Entry-Level Tech Jobs — Some rare common sense from AWS leadership. Who would have guessed?
🔗 https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/aws_ceo_entry_level_jobs_opinion/AWS Back On Brand: Kiro Pricing Bugs — And just like that, we're back to “surprise” bills and busted pricing.
🔗 https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/18/aws_updated_kiro_pricing/Kubernetes Isn’t Enough for a Production-Ready Platform — Raw Kubernetes doesn’t make a platform. The article nails it: platform engineering is about developer experience, not YAML.
🔗 https://thenewstack.io/kubernetes-isnt-enough-for-a-production-ready-platform/Funding Open Source Like Public Infrastructure — If your platform runs on open source, this one’s for you. It's time we start funding the things we depend on.
🔗 https://dri.es/funding-open-source-like-public-infrastructureAWS Deleted My 10-Year Account Without Warning — A bit of a storm in a teacup, but still: a good reminder to keep tabs on your billing. The full story (and recovery) is worth a look.
🔗 https://www.seuros.com/blog/aws-deleted-my-10-year-account-without-warning/
🔗 https://www.seuros.com/blog/aws-restored-account-plot-twist/
🦮 Tutorials / How-tos
6 Honest Questions When Building a Platform — Despite the clickbait title, this post hits some real points about when a platform actually makes sense.
🔗 https://log.andvari.net/6reasons.htmlDeploying a Tetris Game on AWS ECS with Terraform — Need an excuse to play and learn? Tetris + Terraform = joy.
🔗 https://blog.praveshsudha.com/how-to-deploy-a-tetris-game-on-aws-ecs-with-terraformBuild Your Own SaaS Cloud Platform with Kamaji + GitOps — Kamaji continues to fly under the radar, but this is a solid walkthrough of building a multi-tenant SaaS offering.
🔗 https://itnext.io/build-your-own-saas-cloud-platform-with-kamaji-and-gitops-aeec1b5f17fd
📁 Interesting Projects
Zizmor — Static analysis for GitHub Actions. CI/CD security tends to be an afterthought—this is a step in the right direction.
🔗 https://github.com/zizmorcore/zizmortfclean — A small tool to clean up unused Terraform resources. Finally.
🔗 https://github.com/takaishi/tfcleanEdka — Run Kubernetes on Hetzner, because cloud doesn’t have to be expensive.
🔗 https://edka.io/
📅 Events
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon (India)
📅 August 13–15, 2025 | 📍 Hyderabad, India
🔗 https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-india/Conf42 Platform Engineering 2025
📅 September 4, 2025 | 📍 Online
🔗 https://www.conf42.com/platform2025DevOpsCon New York (with Platform Engineering Summit)
📅 September 29 – October 2, 2025
🔗 https://devopscon.io
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