Patterns, services, and architectural decisions for building on AWS — including Bedrock, SageMaker, Transfer Family, and more.
16 articles in this seriesI 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.
I argued that foundation models beat custom forecasting pipelines at a certain breakeven point. Then a real benchmark landed on my desk. Here are the numbers: Chronos-2 vs a tuned XGBoost fleet vs a manually-reviewed supply chain reference, on monthly demand forecasting.
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.
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.
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.
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 The 2022 playbook (Private NAT Gateway + NLB per service) is obsolete.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.
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.
Weekly roundup of AWS announcements: AI Scholars program, Agent Plugin for serverless, Aurora Express setup, Lambda upgrades, Polly streaming, and more.
A discovery call with a global specialty chemicals company revealed that the real AI bottleneck isn't models — it's data. Here's what enterprise chemistry teams actually need versus what the hype promises.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
How to architect a secure, multi-tenant SFTP service across AWS accounts using Transfer Family, NLB, Transit Gateway, and per-partner S3 isolation.
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.
19 articlesExploring the frontier of autonomous AI agents — multi-agent systems, RAG pipelines, and agentic frameworks like Strands.
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