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Jul 4, 2026
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9 min read
SL#90 - AWS AI Series (24/30) - Zero-ETL in Practice: Query Live DynamoDB Data in Redshift With No Pipeline Code
Wire a DynamoDB table to a Redshift Serverless workgroup so operational data lands in your warehouse automatically, then query it with SQL. All of it from boto3 and the Redshift Data API. Plan for 90 minutes, most of it waiting on AWS to provision.
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Jul 3, 2026
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11 min read
SL#88 - AWS AI Series (23/30) - Clean Your RAG Corpus Before It Poisons Your Answers: A Glue 5.1 Dedup and Quality Gate
Build a serverless Glue 5.1 job that strips junk, removes exact and near-duplicate chunks, and refuses to write the output unless it passes a Data Quality ruleset.
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Jul 1, 2026
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10 min read
SL#87 - AWS AI Series (22/30) - Athena as Your Data API: Feed Bedrock Prompts From Serverless SQL on S3
Build a feature-extraction layer that turns raw S3 data into compact prompt context with one Athena query, then injects it into a Bedrock call. No database to run, no pipeline to babysit. Plan for 60 to 90 minutes.
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Jun 27, 2026
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9 min read
SL#84 - AWS AI Series (21/30) - Build an Iceberg Lakehouse on S3 Tables: Time Travel and Auto-Compaction, Queried From Two Engines
Stand up a managed Apache Iceberg table on Amazon S3 Tables, then query it from both Athena SQL and Spark, travel back to an earlier version, and watch S3 compact the files for you with zero maintenance jobs.
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Jun 26, 2026
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9 min read
SL#83 - AWS AI Series (20/30) - From S3 to Insights in Under an Hour with SageMaker Unified Studio Serverless Notebooks
Stage your own data in S3, onboard into SageMaker Unified Studio with one click, then query it three ways in a single serverless notebook: Athena SQL, Athena for Spark, and a natural-language Data Agent.
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Jun 25, 2026
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10 min read
SL#82 - AWS AI Series (19/30) - Build a Company Assistant Over S3 and Confluence With a Custom Action in Amazon Q Business
Build an Amazon Q Business application that indexes your S3 documents, connects to Confluence, and runs a custom plugin action that hits your own API. Plan for 2 hours if you have used IAM Identity Center before, 3 if you have not.
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Jun 23, 2026
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8 min read
SL#80 - AWS AI Series (18/30) - Upgrade a Legacy Java 8 App to Java 21 With AWS Transform's Agentic CLI
Hand a legacy Java 8 Spring Boot app to an AWS agent and get back a Java 21 branch with a green build and a reviewable, commit-by-commit diff. About 60 to 90 minutes, most of it watching builds run.
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Jun 21, 2026
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9 min read
SL#77 - AWS AI Series (17/30) - Ship a Feature Through Kiro Specs With Property-Based Tests
Take one small, invariant-heavy feature, a fair money splitter, all the way through Kiro's spec workflow: EARS requirements, design, tasks, generated code, and a property-based test suite that actually tries to break it.
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Jun 20, 2026
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8 min read
SL#75 - AWS AI Series (16/30) - Build and Ship Your Own MCP Server on AWS Lambda
Write a custom MCP server with three tools and session memory, deploy it to Lambda behind API Gateway with Streamable HTTP, verify it with the MCP Inspector, and connect it to Claude.
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Jun 17, 2026
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10 min read
SL#74 - AWS AI Series (15/30) - Nova Act: Script a Browser Agent That Extracts Data and Fills Forms on a Real Site
Build a Python browser agent with the Amazon Nova Act SDK that navigates a site, pulls structured data into typed Python objects, and fills out a form, all driven by natural language. Plan for 60 to 90 minutes if you have used Playwright or Selenium before.
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Jun 16, 2026
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8 min read
SL#73 - AWS AI Series (14/30) - Multi-Agent Patterns in Strands: Agents-as-Tools, Swarm, and Graph (and When Each Is Wrong)
Build the same research/writer/reviewer pipeline three ways with the Strands Agents SDK, then learn which pattern to actually reach for.
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Jun 15, 2026
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9 min read
SL#71 - AWS AI Series (12/30) - Agents You Can Audit: Lock an AgentCore Agent Behind JWT Auth and Trace Every Call in CloudWatch
We take a Strands agent on Bedrock AgentCore Runtime, put a Cognito JWT wall in front of it so only authenticated callers get in, and wire OpenTelemetry so every invocation shows up as a traced session in the CloudWatch GenAI Observability dashboard.
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Jun 14, 2026
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8 min read
SL#70 - AWS AI Series (11/30) - Give Your Agent Hands: Build a Fact-Checker With AgentCore Code Interpreter and Browser
Build an agent that browses a live page for a real number, then writes and runs Python in a sandbox to verify a claim about it. Two AgentCore built-in tools, one Strands agent.
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Jun 13, 2026
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9 min read
SL#69 - AWS AI Series (10/30) - Turn a Lambda Into MCP Tools Your Agent Can Call With AgentCore Gateway
Build a managed MCP server in front of an AWS Lambda function, expose two tools to a Strands agent without writing protocol code, then add a REST API as a second target.
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Jun 12, 2026
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9 min read
SL#67 - AWS AI Series (9/30) - Agents That Remember: Persist User Preferences Across Sessions with AgentCore Memory
Build a Strands agent that recalls who the user is and what they like across separate runs, using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory for both the conversation buffer and the long-term preference store. Plan for about 90 minutes if you finished episode 7, two hours if this is your first Strands agent.
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Jun 11, 2026
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11 min read
SL#66 - AWS AI Series (8/30) - From Laptop to Prod: Deploy Your RepoScout Agent to Bedrock AgentCore Runtime
Take the local RepoScout agent from episode 7 and ship it to a managed, isolated microVM runtime with the AgentCore harness and CLI - the agent code barely changes.
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Jun 10, 2026
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10 min read
SL#65 - AWS AI Series (7/30) - Strands Agents 101: Build a Code-Defined Agent With 3 Custom Tools in ~50 Lines of Python
We build a local agent that answers questions about any codebase on your disk, using three custom tools and Amazon Bedrock. Plan for about 60 minutes if you have AWS credentials ready, 90 if you have to enable Bedrock model access first.
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Jun 8, 2026
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9 min read
SL#62 - AWS AI Series (5/30) - Make a Small Model Act Big: Fine-Tune Nova Micro on Bedrock and Benchmark It vs Base
Take the smallest Nova model, teach it one job, and watch it jump from 41% to 97% accuracy for $2.18 - then serve it at the cheap-model price.
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Jun 7, 2026
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9 min read
SL#61 - AWS AI Series (4/30) - Stop Eyeballing Prompts: Version a Prompt and Run a 3-Model Eval Job in Bedrock
We'll move one prompt out of your codebase into Bedrock Prompt Management, version it, then run an LLM-as-a-judge evaluation job that scores three models against your own dataset and tells you which one to ship. About 90 minutes, most of it waiting on the eval job.
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Jun 6, 2026
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8 min read
SL#59 - AWS AI Series (3/30) - Bedrock Guardrails: Build a Guarded Chatbot Endpoint That Actually Blocks the Attacks
Build a support-assistant endpoint protected by Amazon Bedrock Guardrails, then run four attacks against it and watch each one get blocked or masked. Plan for 60 to 90 minutes if you have used boto3 before.
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Jun 5, 2026
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9 min read
SL#58 - AWS AI Series (2/30) - Production RAG in an Afternoon: Build a Bedrock Knowledge Base on S3 Vectors
Build a queryable, citation-backed knowledge base over your own documents with Bedrock Knowledge Bases and S3 Vectors, entirely from Python. 60-90 minutes, under a dollar in AWS charges.
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Jun 4, 2026
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8 min read
SL#57 - AWS AI Series (1/30) - One API, Two Model Families: Build a Bedrock CLI with Converse, Streaming, and Validated JSON
Episode 1 of the AWS AI Series: a Python CLI that talks to Amazon Nova 2 and Claude Sonnet 4.6 through one identical code path, streams tokens, and returns schema-validated JSON. About an hour, end to end.
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Oct 17, 2025
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5 min read
SL#40 - Building a Secure AWS Foundation for SaaS Migration
Securing root, structuring accounts, enabling Control Tower — the groundwork I’m laying for long-term SaaS scalability on AWS.
