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I broke my own AWS infrastructure… without touching the infrastructure.

I had an EC2 instance running an application. Everything looked fine. Then I changed one Security Group rule . Suddenly… the application couldn't reach the database. The instances were healthy.

  • EC2 instance lost database connection due to Security Group rule change
  • Application and database appeared healthy with normal CPU usage
  • Incident underscores importance of understanding cloud security policies

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