FivexL Newsletter, February 2026

Greetings!

FivexL kept its usual pace in February: two new case studies for our happy customers, AWS re:Invent 2025 recap webinar, a round of open-source releases, and two podcast episodes covering security patches and agent-native infrastructure. Here’s the rundown.

Events

If you care about building an organisation where security is a habit, not a hero moment, this webinar is for you.

We’re hosting a webinar with Rusty Atkinson, Senior Vice President, Technology at Clearway Health and author of “The Integrity Edge: Unlocking the Hidden Power of Ethical Leadership”, on how to translate leadership values into real security decisions and build audit-ready architecture.

Topic: “From Leadership Values to Security: How to Build Audit-Ready Architecture”
Date: Wednesday, 18 March 2026
Time: 10:00 AM EDT / 3 PM CET
Duration: 1 hour

Join live and stay for the Q&A, where you can ask Rusty and our FivexL principal consultants questions directly.

Sign up for the webinar

Want to get a feeling of our webinars? Last month Andrey Devyatkin, Guilherme Ferreira, and Vladimir Samoylov went through the 500+ announcements from AWS re:Invent 2025 and picked the ones that actually matter for day-to-day work. The conversation covered what’s worth adopting now, what to keep an eye on, and what’s safe to ignore. If you missed the live session, the recording is on YouTube.

Updates

Open-source project updates

We keep a lot of the tooling we build for client work open source so you can plug it into your own environments. In February we shipped updates to our CloudTrail-to-Slack Terraform module and to lprobe, our secure local-only health check tool.

• terraform-aws-cloudtrail-to-slack 4.5.0
  Terraform module that parses AWS CloudTrail events and sends selected ones to Slack. This release adds SNS fan-out support for CloudTrail S3 notifications, so multiple consumers can process the same CloudTrail events while keeping S3 batching intact. New inputs include enable_s3_sns_fanout, create_s3_sns_fanout_topic, and s3_sns_fanout_topic_arn. Existing setups using direct S3-to-Lambda delivery require no changes.

• lprobe v0.1.8
  LProbe is a small CLI for running HTTP/TCP health checks against localhost inside container images (ECS, Docker) - a safer alternative to shipping curl or wget in every image. This release bumps CI tooling and Go to 1.26, keeping the tool aligned with current runtimes.

Blog post and case study updates

• Sirob Technologies Case Study
  Sirob Technologies had a working AI product powered by Amazon Bedrock but no production infrastructure to run it on for real customers. FivexL built a secure, multi-tenant AWS platform - Landing Zone, zero-standing-access, security monitoring, and a productized Bedrock deployment on ECS - in under two months. If you’re building an AI-native product and wondering how to get from prototype to production without a year-long infrastructure project, this one’s for you.

• Neverless Case Study
  Neverless, a London fintech, needed to expand into AWS while keeping their existing Google Cloud environment running. FivexL delivered a secure, audit-ready AWS foundation via RightStart so the team could start building on AWS immediately without rethinking the basics. Worth reading if you’re running multi-cloud or planning a migration and want to see how to set up the AWS side without slowing down your product work.

• AWS News You Can Actually Use In 2026
  AWS made 500+ announcements at re:Invent 2025. We went through all of them and pulled out the features that are actually worth adopting this year - things like ECS tmpfs support, Transfer Family web apps, and multi-region IAM Identity Center. If you don’t have time to read every changelog but want to know what’s changed, start here.

• FivexL Newsletter, January 2026
  Missed last month? Catch up on the January edition - open-source releases, a practical guide to getting AWS credits, and two podcast episodes on AI in dev workflows and Kubernetes vs managed services.

Podcast: DevSecOps Talks

Our co-founder Andrey Devyatkin hosts the DevSecOps Talks podcast together with Paulina Dubas and Mattias Hemmingsson. Paulina is an independent Lead DevOps Engineer/Architect who spent the last decade building and shaping cloud platforms. Mattias is a former CISO at a car rental company, a certified pentester, and a cloud engineering enthusiast. Together they use the show to sanity-check new trends, share what actually works in the field, and translate “DevSecOps” from buzzword back into day-to-day practice.

In February, they released two new episodes: one on the January security landscape, and another featuring a guest deep-dive into agent-native infrastructure.

Episode #91 – January Security Roundup: CVSS 10 in n8n, Self-Hosted AI Scares, and Nonstop Patching

This episode kicks off with a CVSS 10 vulnerability in n8n, then looks at self-hosted AI assistants with weak defaults and prompt injection risks. The crew talks through what happens when a self-hosted bot has access to your API keys, inbox, and drives - and what your team should rotate, patch, and lock down before it becomes a problem.

Listen the full episode

Episode #92 – From System Initiative to SWAMP: Agent-Native Infra with Paul Stack

What can you automate with SWAMP today, from AWS to a Proxmox home lab? In this episode, the team talks with Paul Stack about how skills, scripts, and reusable workflows plug into your stack - and whether this could be the missing guardrails for your infrastructure agents.

Listen the full episode

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