Insights & Resources

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.

WAF beyond “enable managed rules”: COUNT→BLOCK, rate limits, Bot Control cost traps, GraphQL depth. July 2026 API protection 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.

HIPAA on AWS build guide: BAA via Artifact, eligible services, KMS/VPC/RDS/S3 patterns. July 2026 engineering checklist.

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.

AWS Security Hub aggregates security findings from 200+ sources and, as of Jul 14 2026, includes AI inventory for org-wide AI assets. This guide covers setup, compliance standards, AI inventory, automated remediation, and a compliance dashboard without hiring a SOC team.

AWS Cost Anomaly Detection uses machine learning to flag unusual spending patterns — runaway EC2 instances, unexpected Lambda spikes, or compromised credentials. This guide covers setup, alerting, and automation to prevent bill shock.