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Agent Plugins Are the Future. But You Might Be Giving Away Your Best Engineering.

Agent Plugins Are the Future. But You Might Be Giving Away Your Best Engineering.

A few weeks ago AWS dropped Agent Plugins, a packaging model that bundles skills, MCP servers, hooks, and reference docs into installable units for AI coding agents. Two commands and your Claude Code or Cursor agent knows how to deploy to AWS, estimate costs, and generate IaC.

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AWS Just Published an MCP Strategy Guide. Here Is What Actually Matters.

AWS Just Published an MCP Strategy Guide. Here Is What Actually Matters.

AWS quietly dropped a prescriptive guidance document on MCP strategies this month. If you have spent any time with MCP servers, you know the protocol itself is straightforward. The hard part is everything around it: how many tools to expose, where to host the servers, how to stop an agent from deleting your production database with inherited admin credentials.

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Prototype in Hours, Deploy in Production: n8n to AWS Bedrock AgentCore

Prototype in Hours, Deploy in Production: n8n to AWS Bedrock AgentCore

Your team just got the green light to build an AI agent for customer support escalation. The architect says “CDK and AgentCore.” The PM says “show me something by Friday.”

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CloudWatch Logs Just Got an HTTP Endpoint. That Changes More Than You Think.

CloudWatch Logs Just Got an HTTP Endpoint. That Changes More Than You Think.

Every time I set up log shipping from a non-AWS source to CloudWatch, the same friction shows up. Install an agent. Configure IAM credentials. Implement SigV4 signing. Manage rotation. It works, but it is a lot of ceremony for “send this text to that place.”

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