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From Network Plumbing to Application Intent: What AWS Networking Reveals About Infrastructure's New Role
Rob Kennedy, AWS Vice President of Network Services, opened his re:Invent 2025 keynote with a simple metaphor: atoms bond into molecules, molecules combine into structures, and those structures become complex organisms. The implication was clear, networking is no longer about connectivity. It’s about intent.
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The AI Agent Governance Gap: Why Policy and Evaluations Matter More Than the Model
Many organisations are rushing into deploying AI agents with the same enthusiasm they had for serverless in 2016, great technology, terrible operational discipline. The pattern is predictable: build a proof-of-concept that works brilliantly in a demo, deploy it cautiously to production, then discover you have no idea how to govern what it’s actually doing once users interact with it at scale.
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Beyond Vibe Coding: The Renaissance Developer Framework for Infrastructure Leaders
I watched Werner Vogels deliver what he’s calling his final AWS re:Invent keynote, and it struck me that he wasn’t talking about new services or feature announcements. Instead, he spent an hour articulating why the tools matter less than the person holding them. After 14 years of keynotes, Amazon’s CTO decided to hand the microphone to younger voices—but not before leaving infrastructure leaders and architects with something more valuable than a roadmap: a framework for how to think about engineering in the AI era.
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Finally! AWS Transit Gateway Gets Flexible Cost Allocation
If you’ve been managing AWS Transit Gateway costs in a multi-account environment, you’ve probably felt the pain of sender-pay billing. Well, I’ve got great news, AWS just launched Flexible Cost Allocation for Transit Gateway and your FinOps team is going to love this!
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