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Which AWS Transform Capability Do You Actually Need?
AWS Transform is several products. Continuous modernization went generally available on 3 August 2026. Pick one primary capability for the estate, or the program runs two campaigns at once.
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Harness Engineering for Production AI Agents (October 2026)
OpenAI's 11 February 2026 Codex experiment merged about 1,500 pull requests. AgentCore Harness, GA 17 June 2026, still defaults to 75 iterations and a 3,600-second timeout. The harness sets those bounds, not the model.
8 min
Mastering AI Agent Tools: Commands, Permissions, Testing, and Production Operations
Three coding CLIs, three permission models. Cursor agent 2026.01.28, Claude Code 2.1.296, and Codex from OpenAI's docs. Checked 11 October 2026.
12 min
Mastering Amazon Bedrock CLIs: AWS CLI, Model Operations, and AgentCore
Two CLIs, not one binary named bedrock-cli. AWS CLI 2.39.1 and AgentCore CLI 1.0.1, rechecked 29 October 2026, the day after AgentCore CLI 1.0 went GA.
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Connect Evaluation Checks (Oct 2026): Warnings Don't Stop Activation
On October 9, 2026 Amazon Connect Customer added Save and validate in 8 Regions. Structural errors block activation. Gen AI warnings do not. The Gen AI check is capped at 3 in parallel and 30 per hour.
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Amazon Bedrock BigCommerce Integration: A Shopper Agent on AgentCore and Storefront MCP
Checked 8 October 2026. Storefront MCP is beta, with 7 B2C tools. search_products rejects a term under 3 characters. create_checkout_url takes 0 payment fields and returns a URL.
15 min
Amazon Bedrock Odoo Integration: Order and Stock Reads on AgentCore and JSON-2
Checked 8 October 2026. Odoo 19 JSON-2 keys last at most 3 months. saas-19.4 MCP exposes 5 tools by default. action_confirm stays off the week-one agent.
15 min
Amazon Bedrock Shopify Integration: A Production Shopping Agent on AgentCore and Shopify UCP
Checked 6 October 2026. Catalog and cart tools on /api/mcp are removed. complete_checkout is off for both non-token tiers. Call UCP 2026-08-25 through an adapter, not an Admin token.
5 min
Before You Build It: The AWS Primitive That Replaces the Custom Piece
A lab design review still had a cron server for a nightly job. Classic Lambda had already stopped at 900 seconds. Name the primitive, or name the stop-rule that keeps the box.
6 min
AWS Transform Continuous Modernization vs a Funded Rewrite
A lab schedule after the 3 August 2026 GA returned findings and zero pull requests. Agentic-readiness scores 56 criteria. AWS-managed compute runs analyses only, and remediation still needs Batch or EC2.
6 min
CDC into S3 Tables: Zero-ETL or DMS plus MERGE
A lab query still returned a customer the source deleted. Zero-ETL can land DynamoDB and listed SaaS sources in S3 Tables. A self-managed database cannot. Firehose database CDC was removed on 24 September 2025.
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Glue Zero-ETL vs DMS vs Firehose vs AppFlow
A lab table landed twice: Zero-ETL and DMS on the same rows. Self-managed databases replicate only to Redshift. Firehose Direct PUT into Iceberg is capped at 5 MiB/s in three regions, and database CDC was removed on 24 September 2025.
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