Rediscovering AWS Firecracker, the hidden open-source jewel from AWS

This post is probably one of the longest I have in my blog, but trust me, it’s 100% written by me, no AI slop, gluten free XD Hi everyone! In this post I’m going to talk about Firecracker and MicroVMs and their importance during this new AI era we are living in. This is more like a summary of the talks I presented at the AWS Community Day Colombia 2026 and AWS Community Day Bolivia 2026. I received some messages from folks interested in this topic, so I feel happy to share it here! ...

October 10, 2026 · 12 min · donkeysharp

Nuke'em all! Using AWS Nuke to clean your AWS accounts

Introducing AWS Nuke! In this post I will give you a quick introduction to AWS Nuke, a tool developed in Golang that aims to delete all resources in an AWS account. This tool helped me a lot. Use Cases Cleaning Free Tier AWS Account This was a personal use-case, I created a free tier AWS Account some months ago and I’ve been using it for different purposes, some of the resources I created were via Terraform which made it simpler to delete the resources I created after using them, on the other hand, I created other resources manually without tracking them, some of them were costing me money!. So I prefered to delete everything in this account as I use it for learning purposes only. AWS Nuke is a great fit for this task. ...

July 13, 2025 · 5 min · donkeysharp