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Practical write-ups from building HIPAA-aligned healthcare software: cloud operations, incident response, and the engineering lessons we'd want someone to hand us.

Cloud Operations

The Day AWS Said We Owed $23,067: A Step-by-Step Cloud Kill Switch

A first-person account of the July 2026 AWS billing glitch, and the exact two-layer spending kill switch we built the same afternoon: a require-approval budget freeze plus an automatic email-sending pause. With the policy JSON, the Lambda, and the five gotchas that will save you an afternoon.

Darrell Henry · July 17, 2026 · 12 min read