552 articles across 11 subjects and 16 series, about 68 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.
- Connect for Banking (Oct 2026): Step-Up Auth, PCI, Fraud CallbacksNew10 min read

- Connect + BigCommerce Order Lookup (Oct 2026): Webhooks to EventBridgeNew12 min read

- Customer Profiles (Oct 2026): Keys Decide Who the Agent SeesNew13 min read

- Connect + JD Edwards (Oct 2026): Build the AIS Orchestration Step by StepNew12 min read

- Amazon Connect for Loan Servicing (Oct 2026): Status, Document Chase, Payment ArrangementsNew12 min read

- Connect + NetSuite (Oct 2026): M2M OAuth, step by stepNew13 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, Week of October 23, 2026: 8 Launches Ranked by Bill ImpactNew11 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 model5 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.
- 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 Desktop6 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

- Amazon S3 SSE-C Default Disable (April 2026): Migration Playbook3 min read

- AWS Shield Advanced (2026): DDoS Response, Cost Protection, and Buyer Guide4 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 ExpireNew4 min read

- Which DevOps Tool Owns Each Layer on AWSNew15 min read

- Monitor Shopify Storefront and Checkout Journeys with CloudWatch SyntheticsNew4 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 StrandsNew10 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 AWSNew5 min read

- Automate Ecommerce Product-Feed Validation on AWSNew6 min read

- Detect Stale Ecommerce Data Exports before Reports Go WrongNew5 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 BatchNew3 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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