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TwinMaker still earns its keep when spatial context beats line charts. July 2026 refresh — SiteWise connectors, Dynamic Scene, AMG (not SiteWise Monitor), and when a 3D twin is overkill.
Amazon Bedrock Agents Classic automate workflows by giving foundation models the ability to call tools (APIs, Lambda, databases). This guide covers building agents with tool definitions, testing in the console, handling errors, and scaling to production.
Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases automate the RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipeline — semantic search, chunking, embedding, and context injection into Claude or other foundation models. This guide covers setup, data ingestion, cost optimization, and production patterns.
Glue ETL + Athena SQL without servers — still the default lake path. July 2026: Glue 5.x jobs, Parquet partitions, ~$0.44/DPU-hour + $5/TB scan math, pipeline checklist.
Karpenter replaces Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaler with intelligent bin-packing and just-in-time node provisioning. This guide covers setup, consolidation, cost optimization, and production patterns for EKS clusters.
ECS blue/green without downtime: CodeDeploy canary/linear still works — and native ECS BLUE_GREEN (2025+) is now a first-class path. July 2026 checklist: hooks, alarms, dual-run cost.
Monolith → Fargate without a big-bang cutover: containerize, ALB weights 10→50→100, keep blue 2–4 weeks. July 2026 cutover checklist.
Amazon SageMaker automates ML training, but instance costs add up fast. This guide covers spot instances, instance selection, distributed training, and production patterns to reduce SageMaker costs by 50-70%.
Amazon Bedrock Guardrails protect foundation models from harmful outputs — filtering on prompt injection, jailbreaks, toxicity, and PII. This guide covers setup, testing, cost optimization, and production safety patterns for GenAI applications.
Amazon Q for Business is a generative AI assistant for enterprise search and document retrieval. This guide covers setup with SharePoint and S3 data sources, user management, and production deployment patterns.
AWS Control Tower automates multi-account management — setting up guardrails, enforcing compliance policies, and centralizing billing. This guide covers setup, customization, and production governance patterns.
March 2026 roundup — Nova Forge, Durable Functions, Graviton5, Trainium3, Route 53 Global Resolver. July 2026 retrospective: what still matters four months later.
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