Searching digital data is a daily task in our lives, allowing us to navigate vast amounts of information.

It is both common and complex, involving a wide range of search engines, indexing methods, search algorithms, and implementations.

Typically, searches are performed remotely - on some server, database or a cloud service. We are accustomed to waiting for search results.

What if we could get search results instantly?

A silent change to the AWS infrastructure caused thousands of ECS applications to become unusable. Applications that relied on EBS-backed volumes suddenly lost access to their storage. Read how we dealt with this issue and how you can prevent similar problems in your infrastructure.

At the end of April, AWS made changes to the default settings for S3 buckets. Newly created buckets have the ACL mechanism deactivated by default. This may cause errors for Terraform users who have not explicitly enabled ACLs on their buckets, or are configuring the buckets in the “old way”.