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08 September 2026 · 3 MIN READ
80% of organizations have adopted AI — only 10% govern it. AWS just published the AI Security Framework: the right controls, at the right layers, at the right phases. An 85-second explainer plus the architect's takeaway: day-1 controls are configuration changes, not architecture changes.
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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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07 August 2026 · 7 MIN READ
My pipeline generates a playable HTML5 game every day with Bedrock. An audit found 6 of 7 published games broken — while every one of them passed structural validation. Here is how I rebuilt the quality gate around real usage: hit-tested playtests, a progress-signal check, prompt contracts, and a fail-closed publish loop that rejected three broken versions before shipping a good one.
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06 August 2026 · 8 MIN READ
AWS just cut GPT-5.6 Luna prices by 80% and Terra by 20% on Bedrock, matching OpenAI's first-party cut on the same day. The interesting part is not the discount — it's the asymmetry, and what it changes in your model-routing math. With worked examples.
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20 July 2026 · 10 MIN READ
The claim that you can't tag Bedrock calls is partly true and mostly misleading. Here are the four cost attribution mechanisms, when to use each, and the gateway pattern that unlocks per-user dollars in your bill.
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10 July 2026 · 9 MIN READ
A grounded look at what agentic AI actually accelerates in a large VMware migration, where AWS Transform earns its keep, and where a human still owns the decision.
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10 March 2026 · 14 MIN READ
Most RAG tutorials stop at 'put vectors in a database.' This post covers what actually determines quality: how you chunk documents, which vector search engine to pick, and how to measure and iterate on retrieval performance using Bedrock Knowledge Bases and LLM-as-judge evaluation.
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10 March 2026 · 12 MIN READ
Vector search, semantic search, keyword search, hybrid search — these terms get used interchangeably but they mean different things. This post breaks down what each actually does, when each matters, and why hybrid search wins for RAG.
AI
02 March 2026 · 8 MIN READ
A deep dive into the multi-agent architecture behind AWS Security Agent's automated penetration testing — from specialized agent swarms to assertion-based validation.
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09 February 2026 · 22 MIN READ
AWS now offers 9 different ways to store and search vectors for RAG workloads. This guide compares every option through the Well-Architected Framework to help you pick the right one.