Notes from the field.
Practical notes on cloud delivery, migrations, and managed services across NZISM, CIS, NIST and other frameworks, written by the people who deliver the work.
Idle Doesn't Mean Free.
A field guide to pricing AI workloads on AWS: token math, vector database OCUs, multiplied environments, observability, and data transfer.
Idle Doesn't Mean Free: A Field Guide to Pricing AI Workloads on AWS
Most AI cost estimates stop at the token rate. Here's where the rest of the bill actually comes from: vector database OCUs that charge whether you query them or not, environments that multiply fixed costs, observability, and data transfer through VPCs and Transit Gateway.
AWS for AI Workloads: A Strategic Playbook for Security, Cost, and Scale
AI workloads don't behave like traditional applications. Here's a practical playbook for architects and leaders building on AWS, from Well-Architected AI lenses to Bedrock Guardrails to where AI budgets actually go off the rails.
From our AWS notebook.
Our certified architect has been writing about AWS since 2021. Older posts live on Medium while we build out this blog.
AWS Landing Zone Accelerator Overview
How AWS's own tooling simplifies deploying a complex, multi-account landing zone.
Uploading Data to AWS S3 Over a VPN
Secure data transfer methods for on-premise servers connecting to AWS storage.
My Journey to AWS Gold Jacket
A personal account of reaching one of AWS's highest professional certification milestones.
AWS PrivateLink: AWS to Salesforce, Part 2
Continuing the integration guidance for connecting AWS infrastructure with Salesforce.
AWS PrivateLink: Salesforce to AWS, Part 1
Setting up private connectivity between Salesforce and AWS in a multi-account environment.
AWS WorkSpaces Overview, Part 2
The second part of our look at implementing AWS's virtual desktop service.
AWS WorkSpaces Overview, Part 1
Use cases and implementation scenarios for AWS's virtual desktop service.
AWS Pinpoint Overview
A look at the capabilities and features of AWS's customer engagement platform.
SAP on AWS: High Availability
Addressing resilience for enterprise SAP deployments on AWS. Published in AWS in Plain English.
AWS BackInt: SAP System Copy
Backup integration procedures for SAP system replication on AWS.
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