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Build vs. Buy Just Flipped. Most Teams Haven't Noticed Yet.
The Decision You’ve Been Making on Autopilot Every AWS practitioner has a version of this conversation at least once a quarter. Someone on the team suggests building something custom. Someone else points out there’s a managed service or SaaS product that does it already. The room does the mental maths: engineering time, ongoing maintenance, opportunity cost. Nine times out of ten, you buy.
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Your Inference Bill Is Going Up. Even as Costs Go Down.
The Number That Should Worry You AWS raised GPU Capacity Block prices by 15% on a Saturday in January. No blog post. No announcement. Just a quiet update to the pricing page that said prices were “scheduled to be updated” without mentioning which direction.
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The Real Skill Isn't Coding Anymore. It's Describing What You Want.
You’ve Got the Tools. So Why Are You Still Slow? If you’re building on AWS right now, you have access to more managed services, more abstraction layers, and more AI-assisted tooling than at any point in computing history. CDK, SAM, Amplify, Bedrock, Kiro, Claude Code. The list keeps growing.
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AWS STS Finally Lets You Write Trust Policies That Actually Mean Something
If you’ve ever written an IAM trust policy for GitHub Actions OIDC federation, you’ve probably done the thing we all did. You set the sub condition to repo:my-org/my-repo:*, told yourself “that’s scoped enough,” and moved on with your day.
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