Hands-on AWS Shorts
Short-form notes, certification updates, AWS operations guidance, and data/AI architecture posts.
A step-by-step walkthrough for enabling Claude Platform on AWS, creating a workspace, generating API credentials, and running a first hello-world call.
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Anthropic's Claude Platform is now generally available directly on AWS — bringing full native API feature parity, AWS IAM authentication, unified billing, and CloudTrail audit logging. Here's what it means and how it differs from Claude on Amazon Bedrock.
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Tracing how the AWS AI/ML stack evolved from the 2017 SageMaker era into the age of generative and agentic AI with Amazon Bedrock, Unified SageMaker, Bedrock AgentCore, Foundation Models, and purpose-built AI infrastructure.
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The case for hard spending limits in the age of cloud and SaaS sprawl. AWS is used by the biggest enterprises in the world, the smallest startups and teams, and even lone developers or students trying to learn. This post argues for better spend protection for individual AWS customers and businesses alike. It proposes three ideas -- hard spending caps at multiple levels, cost-aware API classification, and admin-enforceable service quotas.
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Trace the technical evolution of data architectures on AWS, from early optimization patterns to modern analytics platforms.
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Explore a structured framework for the data handling needed to support different kinds of generative AI applications on AWS.
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