It started with a different problem entirely. I was writing a Windows kernel driver in Rust and hit something that bothered me: when Rust’s alloc fails, it panics. In user-mode, that’s a crash. In...

This post is Part 2 of our educational series on Amazon ECS security. In Part 1 – Under the Hood of Amazon ECS on EC2, we explored how the ECS agent, IAM roles and the ECS control plane provide cre...

When running containers on Amazon ECS using EC2 instances, there’s a lot happening under the hood on each host. Understanding these internals is crucial for operating ECS securely. In this first pa...