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Building Your Personal AI Infrastructure: Beyond Tools to Systems

Building Your Personal AI Infrastructure: Beyond Tools to Systems

Daniel Miessler just published something that made me stop and think: “What are we actually building with all these AI tools?” It’s a question that cuts through the hype and gets to the heart of what matters.

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The Bedrock AgentCore Toolkit: A New "Easy Button" for AI Agents

The Bedrock AgentCore Toolkit: A New "Easy Button" for AI Agents

Let’s be honest. The most exciting part of building an AI agent is the agent itself—the logic, the prompts, the creative problem-solving. The least exciting part? The ceremony. The boilerplate. The tedious dance of wrapping our code in an API, writing a Dockerfile, managing ECR repositories, and wrestling with deployment scripts to get our creation into the cloud.

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🕹️ AWS-Powered Tetris: Building a Retro Game with Amazon Q and Amplify

🕹️ AWS-Powered Tetris: Building a Retro Game with Amazon Q and Amplify

There’s something magical about the games we grew up with. The simple mechanics, the blocky graphics, and the maddeningly catchy music are etched into our collective memory. So when AWS announced the Build Games Challenge, a global event to recreate these classics using modern AI tools, I knew I had to jump in.

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Cost-Effective Workflow Automation: Deploying n8n on Amazon Lightsail

Cost-Effective Workflow Automation: Deploying n8n on Amazon Lightsail

Recently I’ve been trying out n8n as a workflow automation tool and I’m really enjoying the flexibility it offers. Of course, being an AWS Community Builder I would naturally run this on AWS Fargate as the n8n software is available as a container, however to keep the costs down I ended up running it on Amazon Lightsail.

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Unlocking Cloud Savings: Your Guide to fsx and s3 Intelligent-Tiering with Python Magic! 🚀

Unlocking Cloud Savings: Your Guide to fsx and s3 Intelligent-Tiering with Python Magic! 🚀

Hey there, tech enthusiasts! Ever stared at your AWS bill and wondered, “Where did that come from?” Yeah, me too. Especially when diving deep into services like fsx for NetApp ONTAP and considering the magic of s3 Intelligent-Tiering to keep those storage costs in check.

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Streamline Your Cloud Compliance: Mastering Time-Based AMI Copies with AWS

Streamline Your Cloud Compliance: Mastering Time-Based AMI Copies with AWS

Hey there, Tech Friends! 👋 Let’s talk about something that might not sound super exciting at first glance, but trust me, if you’re wrestling with cloud infrastructure, especially in regulated industries, this is pure gold. We’re diving deep into the newly announced Time-based Copy for Amazon Machine Images (AMIs).

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Streamline Vault Operations: A Guide to Mastering Auto Unseal

Streamline Vault Operations: A Guide to Mastering Auto Unseal

Unsealing Vault after a server restart is one of those tasks that, while essential, can quickly become cumbersome—especially when you’re managing multiple Vault nodes or clusters. Enter Auto Unseal, a lifesaver in production environments, as it automates the process of securely unsealing Vault without requiring manual intervention.

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Unleash the Power of EBSight for Optimal AWS Storage Management 🚀

Unleash the Power of EBSight for Optimal AWS Storage Management 🚀

Hey there, tech aficionados! 👋 Recently, AWS dropped a neat minor update – they started showing the full size of your EBS snapshots. Game changer! This isn’t just the incremental stuff; it’s the data footprint.

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Mastering AWS Security: Why You Should Avoid Using the Root User for Everyday Tasks

Mastering AWS Security: Why You Should Avoid Using the Root User for Everyday Tasks

Hey there, tech enthusiasts! Ever felt that little thrill of power when you get root access on a system? It’s like holding the keys to the kingdom, right?

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A Reminder of the Power of AWS Config

A Reminder of the Power of AWS Config

Today, I was reminded of the rich content stored in AWS Config and how easily it can reveal so much about an AWS Organisation across one or many accounts.

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