Insights & Resources

Seven signs your AWS migration needs a partner: stalled timelines, unknown inventory, DMS pain, compliance, surprise bills. July 2026 refresh with MAP/MGN/DMA checkpoints.

Silo, pool, or bridge isolation is a unit-economics decision you'll spend three years living with. A comparison framework for SaaS multi-tenancy on AWS, with the per-tenant cost trade-offs across scale tiers and the migration path for teams who picked wrong the first time.

Aurora is 5× faster than MySQL, until your workload is the one where it isn't. A workload-by-workload framework for picking RDS vs Aurora, with the price-per-IOPS math and the patterns where Aurora's cost doesn't pay back.

Your CISO blocks ChatGPT Enterprise. Your engineering team prefers it. A CTO-level decision framework for picking between Amazon Q for Business and ChatGPT Enterprise: data residency, per-seat economics, and the integrations that decide which one ships.

Studio Classic isn't going away today, but new feature work isn't going there. This is a migration playbook for enterprise ML teams moving to SageMaker Unified Studio: what breaks, what gets easier, and the IAM permissions that catch every team off-guard on day one.

An audit-prep checklist for Compliance Leads, Security Officers, and CISOs: BAA execution, documented Security Risk Assessments, workforce training, audit cadence, and the evidence packages OCR investigators expect.

Half the natural-language BI demos fall apart on real schemas. A July 2026 deployment playbook for Generative BI Topics on QuickSight / Quick Sight: RLS, adoption metrics, and how this fits Amazon Quick Suite without confusing it for Q Business.

Rules engines miss fraud rings that mutate weekly. Graph + vector queries don't. A July 2026 production guide to Neptune Analytics: m-NCU sizing (including 32/64 pilots), pause-at-10% cost control, WCC fraud rings, and GraphRAG-ready vector indexes.

ElastiCache loses your AI chatbot's session memory at every node replacement. MemoryDB doesn't. A decision framework for when to pick MemoryDB over ElastiCache, OpenSearch Serverless, and S3 Vectors for AI workloads, with the latency math and the failure mode that forces the switch.

Aurora Limitless shards Aurora transparently to hundreds of millions of rows per second. Here's when it beats vertical scaling, how to pick shard keys, and the real cost trade-offs.

AWS Clean Rooms: analyze together without sharing raw rows. July 2026: 5-member default, C3R crypto, analysis rules checklist.

AWS Application Composer visualizes and generates CloudFormation and SAM templates, now with AI-assisted IaC generation. Here's where it fits in a Terraform/CDK toolchain.