AWS CloudShell visual file editor launched 17 August 2026 with VPC environment storage and session timeout limits

Cloud & FinOps · Aug 23, 2026 · 11 min read

AWS CloudShell got a visual editor on 17 August 2026 — and 3 limits that delete your work

AWS gave CloudShell an "edit" command on 17 August 2026 and aimed it at IaC and agentic work. VPC environments have no persistent storage, and sessions idle out in 20 to 30 minutes.

Manu Shukla

#AWS #cloudshell #DevOps

EC2 Auto Scaling batch instance termination limits and scale-in protection gap, August 2026

Cloud & FinOps · Aug 22, 2026 · 13 min read

EC2 Auto Scaling batch termination raised the blast radius to 100 on 18 August 2026 — scale-in protection still ignores

One call can now terminate 100 instances. AWS pitches it at container orchestrators - the workload whose main safety control, instance scale-in protection, explicitly does not apply to this API.

Manu Shukla

#AWS #ec2-auto-scaling #Kubernetes