https://tcinfra.dev/writing/ Cloud security, observability, AWS evidence, and infrastructure writing by Tymur Chmeruk. en-us Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tcinfra.dev/diagnose-zabbix-snmp-polling-delays/https://tcinfra.dev/diagnose-zabbix-snmp-polling-delays/A Zabbix 7.4 troubleshooting workflow for SNMP queue delays, asynchronous poller saturation, device timeouts, preprocessing, and safe capacity changes.Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tcinfra.dev/opentelemetry-gateway-cardinality-control/https://tcinfra.dev/opentelemetry-gateway-cardinality-control/A practical OpenTelemetry Collector gateway design for controlling metric cardinality, filtering low-value telemetry, and protecting backend ingestion.Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tcinfra.dev/terraform-drift-detection-aws-evidence/https://tcinfra.dev/terraform-drift-detection-aws-evidence/A practical pipeline for detecting Terraform drift in AWS, attributing changes, normalizing evidence, validating coverage, and retaining history.Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tcinfra.dev/validate-aws-cloudtrail-multi-account-coverage/https://tcinfra.dev/validate-aws-cloudtrail-multi-account-coverage/A practical method for validating CloudTrail coverage across AWS Organizations, Regions, event selectors, delivery health, and log integrity.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tcinfra.dev/fedramp-20x-aws-persistent-ksi-evidence/https://tcinfra.dev/fedramp-20x-aws-persistent-ksi-evidence/How to design AWS evidence for FedRAMP 20x around persistent KSI verification, validation, configuration history, metrics over time, and reproducible collection.Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tcinfra.dev/intel-2026-09-22/https://tcinfra.dev/intel-2026-09-22/Technical intelligence analysis on physical cloud infrastructure loss in AWS Middle East regions, rising compute costs across latency-sensitive workloads, and European sovereign boundaries for enterprise desktop assistants.Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tcinfra.dev/intel-2026-07-15/https://tcinfra.dev/intel-2026-07-15/GitHub's AI-driven capacity failures force an Azure-to-AWS failover precisely as Amazon spikes AI compute costs by 20%. Architectural fallout and cost-containment.Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tcinfra.dev/intel-2026-07-01/https://tcinfra.dev/intel-2026-07-01/AWS slaps another 20% tax on AI workloads while the EU aggressively decouples from US infrastructure. Your globalized architecture is a massive liability.Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tcinfra.dev/intel-2026-06-15/https://tcinfra.dev/intel-2026-06-15/Architectural countermeasures for Microsoft antitrust risk, EU data localization, and the explosion of AI-generated shadow IT.Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tcinfra.dev/datadog-bill-too-high/https://tcinfra.dev/datadog-bill-too-high/Audit logs, custom metrics, containers and traces with a usage worksheet. Find Datadog cost drivers and test one reduction before deciding whether to migrate.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tcinfra.dev/datadog-cost-reduction-zabbix-grafana/https://tcinfra.dev/datadog-cost-reduction-zabbix-grafana/Plan what stays in Datadog and what moves to Zabbix, Grafana or a telemetry backend. Compare operational ownership, alert coverage and rollback before offloading.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tcinfra.dev/datadog-to-grafana-migration/https://tcinfra.dev/datadog-to-grafana-migration/A practical guide to moving infrastructure dashboards from Datadog to Grafana-backed data sources while keeping high-value application observability in Datadog.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tcinfra.dev/datadog-to-zabbix-migration/https://tcinfra.dev/datadog-to-zabbix-migration/A phased migration guide for offloading static infrastructure, network devices, and basic availability checks from Datadog to Zabbix without breaking alert coverage.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tcinfra.dev/intel-2026-06-01/https://tcinfra.dev/intel-2026-06-01/Architectural fallout from AWS datacenter drone strikes, Bedrock Grok integration, and mitigating the sprawl of AI-generated shadow databases.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tcinfra.dev/reduce-datadog-log-ingestion-cost/https://tcinfra.dev/reduce-datadog-log-ingestion-cost/A practical log reduction strategy for classifying high-value logs, sampling noisy streams, filtering at the edge, and routing lower-value telemetry to cheaper storage.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tcinfra.dev/zabbix-vs-datadog-cost/https://tcinfra.dev/zabbix-vs-datadog-cost/A workload-based comparison of Zabbix and Datadog cost models, showing where Zabbix fits, where Datadog still earns its cost, and how to split monitoring responsibilities.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tcinfra.dev/intel-2026-05-15/https://tcinfra.dev/intel-2026-05-15/Architectural response to physical drone strikes on AWS infrastructure, high-density AI power constraints, and critical IAM drift remediation.Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tcinfra.dev/intel-2026-05-01/https://tcinfra.dev/intel-2026-05-01/Assessing the blast radius of Q-Day, Oracle's UAE kinetic exposure, and AWS Project Houdini's modular IaC physical layer.Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tcinfra.dev/intel-2026-04-15/https://tcinfra.dev/intel-2026-04-15/Assessing Arm's direct-to-datacenter AGI CPU, the catastrophic $25M AWS key compromise at Resolv Labs, and mandatory architectural pivots for Post-Quantum Cryptography.Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tcinfra.dev/intel-2026-04-11/https://tcinfra.dev/intel-2026-04-11/Arm drops IP licensing for direct silicon at Meta. Resolv Labs bleeds $25M to an AWS IAM failure. Oracle UAE takes a geopolitical hit.Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tcinfra.dev/nist-hardening/https://tcinfra.dev/nist-hardening/A deep dive into implementing the Risk Management Framework (RMF) for AWS and On-Premise environments.Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT