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API Gateway WebSocket Failover: Keep Sessions Across Regions

API Gateway WebSocket failover breaks every live connection. AWS's multi-Region pattern restores sessions using a canary, Route 53 and Global Tables.

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DynamoDB Bulk Executor: Lessons From Building Glue Bulk Jobs

DynamoDB Bulk Executor's builders share what broke running bulk jobs on AWS Glue: cost estimates, Live Tail limits, error floods, rate limits. What to copy.

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AWS Lambda Web Functions: 128 Requests per Environment

AWS Lambda Web Functions run Express or Next.js apps unchanged, with 128 concurrent requests per environment and CPU billing. What changes for serverless teams.

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GPU Cost Attribution on Kubernetes: Bill on Memory, Not Compute

GPU cost attribution on Kubernetes breaks once pods share a GPU: DCGM can report 300% use. Why platform teams should split the bill on memory, not compute.

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Google SRE Book Second Edition: What Changed in 10 Years

Google's SRE book second edition is a full rewrite for AI and platform engineering. What changed in SLOs, observability and team models, and who should read it.

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kagent Agent Builder: Three Guardrails a Prompt Can't Replace

A kagent agent builder on Kubernetes turns one sentence into a running AI agent. A CNCF lab shows why allowlists, approval and RBAC, not prompts, keep it safe.

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Cloudflare Buys Deno: Self-Hosted Workers Finally Get a Team

Cloudflare's Deno acquisition ends Deno Deploy and puts Ryan Dahl on self-hosted Workers. What merging workerd and Celld means for lock-in and migration.

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Amazon ECS GPU Auto Repair: How It Replaces Failing GPUs

Amazon ECS Managed Instances now swap out failing NVIDIA GPU hosts automatically. How the DCGM checks, Xid codes, and 20% drain cap shape AWS GPU reliability.

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Decision Model APIs: AWS and Ollama Back System One, Not OpenAI

AWS, Upstage, and Ollama now serve decision models through TypeSafe's System One API. Why a shared schema lets AI agents swap backends by changing a URL.

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GitHub ReviewBench: Copilot Wins Its Own AI Code Review Test

Copilot tops GitHub's ReviewBench but ranks fourth on an independent leaderboard. What that gap means when choosing an AI code reviewer for CI/CD.

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Valkey-Proxy: Percona Targets the Last Redis Migration Blocker

Self-hosted Valkey lacked the proxy managed Redis provides. Percona's open source Valkey-proxy lets platform teams cluster without app rewrites.

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AWS Digital Sovereignty Lens: A Well-Architected Framework for Regulated Cloud Workloads

AWS's Digital Sovereignty Lens adds 21 questions and 37 best practices for data residency, access control, continuity, and auditability on regulated workloads.

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AWS Prime Day 2026: The Infrastructure Numbers Behind Four Days of Peak Commerce

AWS's Prime Day 2026 numbers: 59 trillion DynamoDB requests and 2.3 trillion Lambda invocations a day. What that scale means for platform engineers.

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AWS Bedrock Now Runs OpenAI Managed Agents Natively — What That Actually Means

AWS Bedrock now runs OpenAI Managed Agents natively — GPT-series models under IAM, VPC, and CloudWatch, without routing data through OpenAI's API endpoints.

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One MCP Server Burned 18,000 Tokens Before Your Agent Did Anything. Here's the Fix.

One MCP server burned 9% of a 200K context window at initialization. Pi's Codemode pattern cuts that overhead to under 2% — and applies beyond Pi.

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The Closed-Loop Incident Response Pattern: How AWS DevOps Agent Uses OpenSearch MCP to Investigate Itself

OpenSearch alerts can hand AWS DevOps Agent the same observability data via MCP, taking incidents from SNS trigger to root cause analysis in five minutes.

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Wiring AWS DevOps Agent to Jira, ServiceNow, and PagerDuty via EventBridge

How to route AWS DevOps Agent investigations to Jira, ServiceNow, or PagerDuty with EventBridge and Lambda: the full integration architecture.

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AWS Open-Sources Two Tools for Self-Hosted Regional Availability Intelligence

AWS open-sourced two self-hosted tools that track which services and features exist in which regions, tailored to the services you actually use.

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Beyond the 30-Minute AZ Test: Running Multi-Day AWS Availability Zone Evacuation Drills

Multi-day AWS AZ evacuation drills expose failures short tests miss: capacity drift, DNS TTLs, pool exhaustion. A runbook for 72-hour ARC zonal shift drills.

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AWS Well-Architected Agent: AI-Powered Cloud Recommendations from Resource to Architecture

AWS Well-Architected Agent, in preview, scans your environment for resource, application, and architecture recommendations with ready-to-apply IaC.

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Kiro Compresses AS/400 Business Rule Extraction from 6 Weeks to 3 Days

AWS's Kiro agent extracts business rules from RPG and COBOL codebases, cutting AS/400 discovery from 4-6 weeks to about 3 days. How the three phases work.

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S3 Vectors Gets Metadata Pre-Filtering: Up to 5× More Matching Vectors on Selective Queries

S3 Vectors' new ENHANCED index mode applies metadata filters before similarity search, fixing recall on selective queries. Upgrade without re-ingesting vectors.

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AG-UI Is the Missing Protocol Between AI Agents and Your Frontend

AG-UI standardizes how AI agents stream typed events to frontends over SSE. How AWS composes it with Strands swarms and Nova Act into adaptive interfaces.

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Why Coding Agents Need a Cloud-Native Harness — and What Mecatl Does About It

Desktop coding agent harnesses bundle UI, loop, sandbox, and tools in one process. How Stacklok's Mecatl splits them with cloud-native architecture.

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AWS EventBridge's Enhanced Event Buses Add Ordering, Deduplication, and Org-Wide Sharing — What Changed

EventBridge enhanced event buses add org-wide sharing, ordering, deduplication, JSONata transforms, and throughput pricing. What changes for AWS teams.

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