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Patterns, services, and architectural decisions for building on AWS — including Bedrock, SageMaker, Transfer Family, and more.
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07 September 2026 · 2 MIN READ
76 seconds on the AWS news that actually changes your architecture this week: Claude Fable 5.1 on Bedrock, Amazon Quick GA, Bedrock Knowledge Bases 3LO connectors for SharePoint/Confluence, EC2 AMI instance-type enforcement — plus one industry signal on agentic commerce.
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05 September 2026 · 1 MIN READ
68 seconds on the AWS news that actually changes your architecture this week: Lambda SnapStart for container images, AgentCore-generated architecture diagrams, Amazon Linux 2027 preview, CloudFront flat-rate pricing API — plus one industry signal on offensive AI.
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05 September 2026 · 4 MIN READ
AWS extended Lambda SnapStart to container image functions — up to 10 GB, sub-second resume, nearly all commercial Regions. Here's what it unlocks for ML inference and heavy runtimes, the snapshot discipline that still applies, and how it changes the SnapStart vs provisioned concurrency vs Fargate math.
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23 July 2026 · 3 MIN READ
I built an iOS photo backup where your own AWS account is the backend: no servers, on-device semantic search, a Bedrock agent in your pocket, ~$0.35/month. The full architecture story is now published on AWS Builder Center.
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30 May 2026 · 10 MIN READ
Amazon Leo Ultra delivers 1 Gbps via satellite with private networking to AWS. Here is what it concretely changes for enterprise connectivity, how it integrates with Cloud WAN and Direct Connect, and when it beats MPLS, SD-WAN, or Starlink.
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14 May 2026 · 9 MIN READ
A decision framework for choosing between Amazon's Chronos-2 foundation model and custom XGBoost many-models pipelines for demand forecasting. Based on real patterns from SKU-level supply chain work.
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20 April 2026 · 7 MIN READ
Your DataZone environment works. AWS says SMUS is the future. Do you upgrade, go greenfield, or wait? Here is the coverage matrix, the 70–85 percent pipeline replacement reality, and the multi-account mesh architecture you actually need.
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10 April 2026 · 6 MIN READ
You are migrating microservices between Kubernetes clusters across AWS accounts, but the source uses /16 CIDRs that collide with corporate. The 2022 playbook (Private NAT Gateway + NLB per service) is obsolete. Here is what re:Invent 2024 gave us.
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09 April 2026 · 6 MIN READ
Cloud WAN promises centralized global networking. At a 30 percent premium over Transit Gateway, what do you actually get, and what are the common misconceptions? Here is the honest technical and financial analysis.
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05 April 2026 · 6 MIN READ
Weekly roundup of AWS announcements: AI Scholars program, Agent Plugin for serverless, Aurora Express setup, Lambda upgrades, Polly streaming, and more.
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07 March 2026 · 9 MIN READ
A practical guide to replacing a third-party CA with ACM exportable public certificates — covering pricing, automation patterns, industry validity changes, and the gotchas nobody mentions.
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26 February 2026 · 11 MIN READ
A visual, jargon-free guide comparing MPLS, SD-WAN, and AWS CloudWAN for enterprise networking — with analogies, comparison tables, and an architecture diagram showing how the three layers connect.
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24 February 2026 · 14 MIN READ
Everything a cloud/AWS engineer needs to know about Python, the Hugging Face Transformers framework, SageMaker integration, quantization, CUDA, and AWS Inferentia — without being a data scientist.
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22 February 2026 · 7 MIN READ
A curated summary of the most important AWS announcements from February 2026 — from Bedrock AgentCore deep dives to new EC2 instances and the European Sovereign Cloud.
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22 February 2026 · 11 MIN READ
End-to-end guide: fine-tune Mistral models with LoRA using Hugging Face Transformers, then deploy at scale with vLLM on AWS — from training to production serving on SageMaker, ECS, or Bedrock.
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13 February 2026 · 10 MIN READ
How to architect a secure, multi-tenant SFTP service across AWS accounts using Transfer Family, NLB, Transit Gateway, and per-partner S3 isolation.
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14 January 2026 · 5 MIN READ
Building a production forecasting application without the complexity of traditional ML model training and feature engineering.
Deep dives into artificial intelligence, large language models, transformers, embeddings, and the core concepts powering modern AI systems.
18 ARTICLESBest practices and deep dives into cloud security — from zero trust architectures to WAF configurations and penetration testing.
21 ARTICLESExploring the frontier of autonomous AI agents — multi-agent systems, RAG pipelines, and agentic frameworks like Strands.
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