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AWS Service Announcements Worth Knowing: March 2026 Edition
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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OT/IT Convergence on AWS: Architecture Patterns for Smart Manufacturing
Connecting your operational technology (OT) network to cloud-scale IT systems on AWS is the foundation of smart manufacturing — but it introduces serious security risks if done wrong. Here are the proven architecture patterns.
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AWS IoT Core for Industrial MQTT: Architecture and Scaling Patterns
AWS IoT Core is the managed MQTT broker at the heart of most AWS Industrial IoT architectures. Here is how to design high-throughput, reliable, and secure MQTT connectivity for factory workloads — from device registration to message routing and cost optimization.
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Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: The Production Guide for Net-New AI Agents on AWS
Harness GA June 17, Agents Classic cutoff July 30, Payments GA August 18, Memory FGAC August 28. Harness vs Runtime, Gateway Policy, and when transacting agents still should not own checkout.
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How to Migrate to AWS Without Cost Surprises
Migration TCO tools nail steady-state and miss the gap: dual-run weeks, DMS, DC egress, day-1 Config/GuardDuty. July 2026 — dual-run worksheet + MAP tagging note.
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How to Build Cost-Aware CI/CD Pipelines on AWS
CI/CD infrastructure is invisible until your DevOps bill hits $15,000/month. Build minutes, artifact storage, and ephemeral environments accumulate costs that few teams track. Here is how to measure and control them.
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How to Build a Cost-Optimized SaaS Stack on AWS (End-to-End Reference)
A B2B SaaS stack that costs $500/month at launch does not need to cost $50,000/month at 100,000 users if the architecture decisions at each stage are deliberate. This is the end-to-end reference architecture with real cost numbers.
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How to Debug Production Issues Across Distributed AWS Systems
A 500ms latency spike in a distributed system could be a slow RDS query, a Lambda cold start, a downstream API timeout, or a CloudWatch Logs ingestion delay. Finding the cause requires correlated logs, traces, and metrics — not grep.
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How to Optimize EC2 for High-Performance APIs
A technical deep dive into EC2 performance optimization for API workloads — covering instance family selection, Graviton vs x86 economics, network tuning, EBS configuration, and Linux kernel parameters that directly impact throughput and tail latency.
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How to Run High-Scale Postgres on AWS Without Breaking the Bank
RDS, Aurora, and self-managed Postgres each have a cost breakeven point. This guide covers total cost of ownership, connection pooling with PgBouncer, indexing strategies, and the edge cases that turn Postgres into a billing surprise.
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How to Build Hybrid Compute (EC2 + Serverless) for Cost Efficiency
A technical guide to hybrid compute architectures that combine EC2, Lambda, Fargate, and Step Functions — with worked cost calculations, SQS buffering patterns, and decision frameworks based on invocation pattern rather than unit cost.
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How to Design MongoDB for Scalable, Cost-Efficient Workloads on AWS
Atlas vs EC2 vs DocumentDB on AWS — TCO flips with DBA time, not $/vCPU. July 2026: index/cache pressure, hot shards, DocumentDB API-compat caveat.
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