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Keeping Your AI Workloads Sovereign on AWS
An Australian lawyer asked me last week whether he could run “frontier Claude” on AWS Bedrock in Sydney and keep his client data in Australia. Simple enough question. The answer is one of those ones where you open your mouth ready to say “yes, obviously” and then close it again, because as of April 2026 the honest answer is “not the way you think, and here is the bit that will bite you.”
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Sovereign Cloud Gets Real When Security Services Show Up
In March 2026, AWS Network Firewall became available in the European Sovereign Cloud. If you’re not paying close attention to the sovereign cloud space, that probably sounds like a minor service addition. I’d argue it’s one of the most significant milestones since the partition launched.
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Patterns, Distribution, and Troubleshooting Your Claude Skills
This is Part 3 of a three-part series on building skills for Claude. Part 1 covered what skills are and why they matter. Part 2 walked through building and testing your first skill. Now we get into the stuff that separates a toy skill from a production one: proven patterns, distribution mechanics, and how to fix things when they break.
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Your AI Agent's Memory is a Liability: Why Flat RAG Fails at Scale
I asked my agent to find a deployment guide. It loaded 47 documents, burned 23,000 tokens, and returned the wrong one.
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