<p>This week on <strong>Ship It Weekly,</strong> Brian covers three “automation meets reality” stories that every DevOps, SRE, and platform team can learn from.</p><p>Cloudflare accidentally withdrew customer BYOIP prefixes due to a buggy cleanup task, Clerk got knocked over by a Postgres auto-analyze query plan flip, and AWS responded to reports about its internal Kiro tooling by framing the incident as misconfigured access controls. Plus: a quick EKS node monitoring update, and a tight security lightning round.</p><p><strong>Links</strong></p><p>Cloudflare BYOIP outage postmortem <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-outage-february-20-2026/">https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-outage-february-20-2026/</a> </p><p>Clerk outage postmortem (Feb 19, 2026) <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://clerk.com/blog/2026-02-19-system-outage-postmortem">https://clerk.com/blog/2026-02-19-system-outage-postmortem</a> </p><p>AWS outage report (Reuters) <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/amazons-cloud-unit-hit-by-least-two-outages-involving-ai-tools-ft-says-2026-02-20/">https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/amazons-cloud-unit-hit-by-least-two-outages-involving-ai-tools-ft-says-2026-02-20/</a> </p><p>AWS response on Kiro + access controls <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws-service-outage-ai-bot-kiro">https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws-service-outage-ai-bot-kiro</a></p><p>EKS Node Monitoring Agent (open source) <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/02/amazon-eks-node-monitoring-agent-open-source/">https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/02/amazon-eks-node-monitoring-agent-open-source/</a></p><p>Grafana CVE-2026-21721 <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://grafana.com/security/security-advisories/cve-2026-21721/">https://grafana.com/security/security-advisories/cve-2026-21721/</a></p><p>runc CVEs (AWS-2025-024) <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/rss/aws-2025-024/">https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/rss/aws-2025-024/</a> </p><p>GitLab patch releases <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/11/26/patch-release-gitlab-18-6-1-released/">https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/11/26/patch-release-gitlab-18-6-1-released/</a> </p><p>Atlassian Feb 2026 security bulletin <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://confluence.atlassian.com/security/security-bulletin-february-17-2026-1722256046.html">https://confluence.atlassian.com/security/security-bulletin-february-17-2026-1722256046.html</a></p><p>Human story: SRE Is Anti-Transactional (ACM Queue) <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3773094">https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3773094</a></p><p>More episodes and show notes at <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://shipitweekly.fm">https://shipitweekly.fm</a></p><p>On Call Briefs at: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://oncallbrief.com">https://oncallbrief.com</a></p>