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AI/ML

SCOT vs Chronos: Two Philosophies of Forecasting at Amazon

Amazon built two radically different approaches to predicting the future — a proprietary supply chain optimization pipeline (SCOT) and an open-source time series foundation model (Chronos). This post compares their architectures, trade-offs, and when each philosophy applies.

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AI Engineering

AWS DevOps Agent: Build vs Buy for Enterprise AIOps

AWS DevOps Agent is GA and included with Support plans. But it doesn't replace your custom agents -- it complements them. Here's the hybrid pattern: what to buy, what to build, and how MCP bridges the gap.

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AI Engineering

AWS Agent Toolkit GA: How I Gave an Agent 15,000 AWS APIs Without Losing Sleep

AWS released the Agent Toolkit for AWS on May 6, 2026 -- a managed MCP server exposing the full AWS API surface to autonomous agents. I shipped an infrastructure agent the same week. Here's the two-phase safety pattern that lets you hand an agent the keys to your account without waking up to a $10K bill.

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AI

Vector Search vs Semantic Search: They're Not the Same Thing

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.

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Cloud

When Your Keys Get Locked In: Navigating AWS KMS Import Limitations

AWS KMS doesn't allow key material export by design. When an external PKI partner generates keys but doesn't retain them, you're stuck. Here are the four AWS alternatives — CloudHSM, XKS, Private CA, and fixing the process — with a decision framework to pick the right one.

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Security

Your Security Team Wants to Privatize Your App — Here's What They Actually Need

When your security team says 'make it private', they usually mean 'make it secure.' This post compares four approaches — VPC privatization, WAF IP allowlisting, CloudFront + auth hardening, and AWS Verified Access — and explains why Zero Trust beats network perimeters for internal applications.

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AI

RAG on AWS: Which Vector Store Is Right for You?

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.

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Development

AWS Backup Cost Analysis

EBS snapshot costs were growing month-over-month with no clear explanation or optimization strategy.

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