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Amazon Bedrock Data Automation replaces fragmented Textract + Comprehend + Lambda pipelines with a managed intelligent document processing service. Production guide.
Black Friday still breaks unprepared AWS estates. July 2026 peak-readiness playbook: CloudFront/WAF edge, predictive Fargate scale, ElastiCache (Redis/Valkey), Aurora + RDS Proxy, and the cost split between baseline and burst.
Retail infrastructure has a specific shape: ~90% of the year sits idle, then peak week hits the P&L. July 2026 refresh: core services, Valkey/cache, SES, PCI scope, peak checklist.
Loyalty, pricing, inventory sync, multi-CDN: retail breaks generic templates. July 2026: buy-vs-build matrix, EventBridge patterns, CloudFront case study (−40% page load).
AWS Retail Competency validates consulting partners for verified retail delivery. This post covers what the program means, what to check beyond the badge, and how to evaluate AWS partners for your retail workloads.
On June 16, 2026, S3 Vectors raised the QueryVectors limit to 10,000 results per query and cut data-processed charges up to 80% on indexes over 10M vectors. Architecture, pagination, and cost comparison vs OpenSearch and MemoryDB.
Deploying GenAI without guardrails is a compliance incident waiting to happen. This post covers how to build a production-grade AI governance layer on AWS using Amazon Bedrock Guardrails, least-privilege IAM, and continuous evaluation.
One AWS contract, multiple foundation models. Learn how to procure, govern, and cost-optimize Meta Llama, Mistral, Cohere, and more via Amazon Bedrock Marketplace.
July 2026: AWS Backup plans, Vault Lock, logically air-gapped vaults, cross-account copies, and restore-test cadence: the RPO/RTO discipline that turns “we have backups” into “we restored last week.”
Kiro is a spec-driven agentic IDE built for autonomous multi-file code generation, separate from Amazon Q. Enterprise guide to adoption and governance.
July 2026: Route 53 hosted zones, latency/geo/failover routing, health checks, and when DNS TTL is not enough, with Route 53 Application Recovery Controller for controlled multi-Region cutover.
The 6 Well-Architected pillars, with what each costs, what each covers, and how to apply them to a workload before AWS's solutions architects do it for you.
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