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Aurora's writer endpoint can lie to you

CloudWatch measures instances. Your application talks to endpoints. For the minute those disagree, every instance metric looks healthy while writes fail.

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PostgreSQL 18 moved the WAL I/O counters

pg_stat_wal lost its write and sync columns to pg_stat_io in 18. Nothing errors. The numbers just stop arriving, and most monitoring never notices.

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