Architecture: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

On July 30, 2026, Amazon Bedrock Agents, the service AWS launched in 2023 for building tool-using AI agents, closes to new customers. AWS has renamed it Bedrock Agents Classic and pointed everyone at its successor. If your team demoed an agent prototype this quarter, someone is about to ask you what it should actually run on in production. The answer AWS wants you to reach is Amazon Bedrock AgentCore . That deadline is a good excuse to understand … Read More

Explained: Amazon Bedrock

Your product manager wants an AI feature. Nothing exotic: summarize support tickets, answer questions over internal docs. You prototype it against a model provider's API in an afternoon, and it works beautifully. Then the review starts. Security wants to know exactly where prompts and customer data go. Legal asks whether your data will be used to train someone else's model. Procurement wants three weeks to onboard a new vendor. Networkin… Read More

In Focus: AI-DLC

Information in this post reflects publicly available sources as of June 30, 2026. A solutions architect stands in front of a room at re:Invent and says six engineers rebuilt a core piece of Amazon infrastructure in 76 days. The original estimate was 40 engineers and a full year. The slide stays up just long enough for the number to land, and then comes the methodology that supposedly made it possible. That methodology is AI-DLC , and the numbers at… Read More

Explained: AWS ENIs (Elastic Network Interfaces)

Your production database server starts throwing errors at 2 a.m. The on-call engineer spins up a replacement instance, and now the scramble begins: update the DNS record, wait for the TTL to expire, reconfigure the firewall rules that were pinned to the old private IP, and hope every downstream service notices the change. Twenty minutes of downtime, most of it spent chasing a network identity that was welded to a machine that no longer exists. Th… Read More

Architecture: Amazon Aurora

You have a production MySQL database on RDS. It works fine at low traffic. Then your load doubles, and you start running into the ceiling: replication lag, failover times measured in minutes, and the uncomfortable knowledge that your data lives on a single EBS volume. You can throw more compute at it, but the storage layer stays the same. The database is the bottleneck, and there is no obvious way out short of a full re-architecture. Amazon Auror… Read More