558 articles across 11 subjects and 16 series, about 70 hours of reading. Each subject has its own page, newest first.
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11 subjects, newest first
Cloud Architecture
AWS architecture patterns covering microservices vs monolith decisions, multi-tenancy, serverless design, database selection, and multi-account governance. Frameworks drawn from real enterprise and SaaS architecture engagements.
- What Schema Conversion Will Not RewriteNew2 min read
- Connect + Acumatica (Oct 2026): Caller Lookup Within API License LimitsNew15 min read
- Connect + Magento (Oct 2026): Order Lookup When REST Has No Phone FilterNew14 min read
- Connect + SAP S/4HANA (Oct 2026): Phone to Business Partner in 5 OData CallsNew14 min read
- Connect for Banking (Oct 2026): Step-Up Auth, PCI, Fraud CallbacksNew10 min read
- Connect + BigCommerce Order Lookup (Oct 2026): Webhooks to EventBridgeNew12 min read
AI Agents
Business notes on what to automate, plus the eCommerce field guide. The five agent families we build live on the AI Agents hub.
- Building Production Agentic AI with AWS Communication Developer Services and Amazon Bedrock AgentCoreNew12 min read
- Building a Post-Delivery Care Agent on AWS CDS: Hackathon Engineering NotesNew6 min read
- 7 AI Agent Memory Types Mapped to AWS, with AgentCore Memory Benchmarked (2026)New12 min read
- 94,000 Trials Later, the Same Models Cost About 2× Under a Different Harness6 min read
- Amazon Bedrock WooCommerce Integration: Product and Order Reads on AgentCore and Canonical Abilities15 min read
- Harness Engineering for Production AI Agents (October 2026)22 min read
Cost Optimization & FinOps
In-depth guides on AWS cost management, FinOps practices, rightsizing, Reserved Instances, and Savings Plans. Our engineers share real billing teardowns, unit economics frameworks, and cost anomaly playbooks from production environments.
- AWS Cost Updates, October 2026: 16 Launches Ranked by Bill ImpactNew19 min read
- Bedrock Knowledge Base Cost for Gmail and Google Drive17 min read
- Bedrock Knowledge Base Cost Starts at the Vector Store10 min read
- A spend limit that pauses the project — and can delete a fine-tuned model6 min read
- ElastiCache Graviton4 (M8g, R8g, C8gn): When to Leave m7g/r7g — and When to Wait4 min read
- S3 Day-0 Standard-IA Transitions: What Changed July 16, 2026 (and What Did Not)4 min read
Security & Compliance
Practical AWS security guides covering IAM least-privilege, GuardDuty, WAF, Secrets Manager, VPC design, and compliance automation. Built from real remediation work across SOC 2, HIPAA, and PCI-regulated environments.
- Patch the 2026 developer stack in this orderNew13 min read
- AWS Lockdown (Nov 2026): Close Three Paths This WeekNew9 min read
- PHP2Shell on AWS: Start on October 17, and Mind the 8 KB WAF GapNew7 min read
- AWS Security Hub MCP App (Preview): Investigate Exposure Findings Inside Claude Desktop7 min read
- API Gateway Security Architecture (2026): WAF, Cognito, Private APIs, and Verified Permissions3 min read
- AWS VPN Decision Guide (2026): Client VPN vs Site-to-Site vs Verified Access vs Direct Connect3 min read
DevOps & CI/CD
Engineering guides on CI/CD pipelines, GitOps, Terraform, EKS with Karpenter, blue-green deployments, and infrastructure drift. Covers patterns our team uses in production across multi-account AWS environments.
- Create Temporary AWS Preview Environments That Expire4 min read
- Which DevOps Tool Owns Each Layer on AWS15 min read
- Monitor Shopify Storefront and Checkout Journeys with CloudWatch Synthetics4 min read
- Mastering AWS CLI: Commands for Cloud Engineering, DevOps, and AI Workloads8 min read
- Mastering Docker Commands: Build, Debug, Secure, and Deploy Containers9 min read
- Mastering Git in the AI Coding Era: Commands, Workflows, and Recovery13 min read
Generative AI
Production-grade guidance on Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker, Amazon Q, and multi-agent AI systems. Covers RAG pipelines, fine-tuning tradeoffs, guardrails, multi-tenant GenAI, and cost optimization for LLM workloads on AWS.
- MCP vs Agent Skills: What Each One Adds to an Agent, Measured on Bedrock with Strands10 min read
- Strands Decider 2B or Jev: keep closed-set decisions inside the account13 min read
- Mastering AI Agent Tools: Commands, Permissions, Testing, and Production Operations8 min read
- Mastering Amazon Bedrock CLIs: AWS CLI, Model Operations, and AgentCore12 min read
- When to Use the AWS MCP Server, and How to Connect It13 min read
- Salesforce and Zendesk on Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, and the connector to pick instead5 min read
Data & Analytics
Data engineering guides on building AWS data lakes, streaming pipelines with Kinesis, serverless ETL with Glue and Athena, and BI dashboards with QuickSight. Patterns for moving from ad-hoc SQL to production-grade analytics infrastructure.
- Automate Ecommerce Payment and Payout Reconciliation on AWS5 min read
- Automate Ecommerce Product-Feed Validation on AWS6 min read
- Detect Stale Ecommerce Data Exports before Reports Go Wrong5 min read
- CDC into S3 Tables: Zero-ETL or DMS plus MERGE6 min read
- Glue Zero-ETL vs DMS vs Firehose vs AppFlow6 min read
- Amazon Redshift Data Warehouse Modernization Playbook (2026): Zero-ETL, Serverless, and Spectrum2 min read
Serverless & Containers
Guides on Lambda, ECS, Fargate, and EKS — from serverless APIs to container orchestration, autoscaling, and production deployment patterns on AWS.
- EventBridge Scheduler: Delete the Lambda That Only Calls One APINew2 min read
- Laravel with Docker Compose: 10 Infrastructure Mistakes, Benchmarked (2026)New12 min read
- Legacy Batch: Replace the Cron Server with Scheduler, Step Functions, and Batch3 min read
- Lambda Managed Instances now run 90 minutes — stop splitting 20-minute jobs7 min read
- Amazon EKS 1.36 Upgrades and Rollbacks: The 7-Day Safety Window5 min read
- Lambda Durable Execution for .NET (2026): When C# Workflows Beat Step Functions5 min read
Email Deliverability
Technical guides on Amazon SES configuration, email deliverability, DKIM/DMARC setup, and migrating from SendGrid, Mailgun, or Postmark. Written by engineers who have moved millions of emails per month to AWS SES.
- Amazon SES isBotEvent on Open and Click events (August 7, 2026)7 min read
- Amazon SES Dedicated IP Warm-Up: Standard vs Managed (2026)11 min read
- Amazon SES Cold Email for B2B: Compliance and Deliverability Setup (2026)4 min read
- AWS SES Marketing Automation with EventBridge and Step Functions (2026)3 min read
- BIMI with Amazon SES: Complete Implementation Guide (VMC, SVG, DMARC)15 min read
- How to Set Up KumoMTA on AWS for Production: The Ultimate Enterprise Guide19 min read
Also filed under AWS News (4), AWS Partner (2).
Two shelves
Most of the library is AWS engineering: architecture, cost, security, data and delivery. The AI agents shelf covers what to automate first, and how to run agents in production on AWS.
A series is read in order. Start with part one, or open the hub where a series has one.
16 reading series
- eCommerce AI Agents field guide
- AWS Service Pricing
- AI Agents for Business
- AWS Operations Automation
- Mastering Developer Tools
- Reliability Engineering & Observability
- AWS Cost Traps
- Kubernetes, Cloud Native & AWS
- AWS Communication Developer Services
- Distributed Systems Architecture
- Database Internals & Performance
- Messaging, Streaming & Event-Driven Systems
- Networking & Protocol Engineering
- API & Application Architecture
- Caching & Performance Optimization
- Concurrency, Runtime & Performance Engineering
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