Field notes from the cloud
Monica
Colangelo
AWS Hero. Cloud architect. Writing about infrastructure that actually works and the governance that keeps it from quietly breaking at 3 a.m.
Recently filed
All articles-
What I learned rebuilding our CI pipeline from scratch
We tore down a four-year-old Jenkins setup and replaced it with something embarrassingly small. Here is what survived contact with reality.
-
IAM Identity Center: the only guide you actually need
Permission sets, account assignments, and the surprisingly subtle art of not giving everyone AdministratorAccess on a Friday afternoon.
-
Control Tower is not the answer to your landing zone problem
It is a perfectly reasonable starting point and a terrible long-term destination. A defense of building your own landing zone, deliberately.
-
Five years of running the AWS Community in Milan
What I got wrong, what I wish someone had told me, and why the meetup format still beats every conference I have ever attended.
-
The case against multi-cloud, written by someone who tried it
Three years, two providers, one extremely tired team. A retrospective on the abstraction tax nobody warned us about.