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The AWS CLI Bug That Broke /dev/null Across Your Entire System
AWS CLI v2 #10196 chmod'd streaming outputs to 0600 — including /dev/null. July 2026 retrospective: #10215 revert, host repair, pin-and-canary checklist.

AWS CLI v2 #10196 chmod'd streaming outputs to 0600 — including /dev/null. July 2026 retrospective: #10215 revert, host repair, pin-and-canary checklist.

A 500ms latency spike in a distributed system could be a slow RDS query, a Lambda cold start, a downstream API timeout, or a CloudWatch Logs ingestion delay. Finding the cause requires correlated logs, traces, and metrics — not grep.
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