Why Your Client Is Hitting Someone Else's Website

ALBs don’t have static IPs. When AWS recycles your old IP and a client’s DNS cache hasn’t caught up, their requests go to someone else’s workload. Here’s what causes it and how to fix it with IPAM.

June 6, 2026 · 7 min · Rohan Prabhu

Ship EC2 Logs to CloudWatch Without the Gotchas

The CloudWatch Agent setup is five commands. The reasons it silently fails are what nobody writes about — so here’s the gotchas first, setup second.

May 14, 2026 · 6 min · Rohan Prabhu

How to Give AWS Lambda a Static IP

Lambda’s outbound IPs change every invocation. Here’s the right way to give it a fixed IP using a NAT Gateway, and the common mistakes that will waste your afternoon.

March 23, 2026 · 7 min · Rohan Prabhu

Goodbye, Manual AWS Credentials

How a single command, aws configure sso, ended my twice-daily ritual of copy-pasting AWS credentials and gave me back ten minutes a day.

February 13, 2026 · 6 min · Rohan Prabhu

AWS AssumeRole: The Complete Guide for Cross-Account Access

The complete guide to AWS cross-account access - including trust relationships and IAM permissions both sides need

December 12, 2025 · 4 min · Rohan Prabhu