I Watched My Coding Agent Refuse to Leak a Secret
AWS Secrets Manager added a secret safety skill to the Agent Toolkit for AWS. I ran the demo, tried to break it and found where it helps and where it stops.
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Weekend Creative Agent Challenge: Amanecer Creativo
Un agente autónomo que genera un poema y una obra de arte cada día, utilizando AWS Lambda, S3, CloudFront, EventBridge y Bedrock, publicado sin intervención humana.
Weekend Creative Agent Challenge: Terra Pulse
An always-on agent that writes the Earth's daily diary. Every morning it reads the last 24h of global earthquakes from USGS and Amazon Nova Micro on Bedrock ghostwrites a first-person chronicle as the planet itself, published on a public page before you wake up. Built for anyone who lives over a fault line and checks seismic feeds more than they should.
Weekend Creative Agent Challenge: Hobby rAIdar
RSS readers show you everything, which leaves the deciding to you. This agent reads your curated hobby sites overnight, has Claude on Bedrock score every new article against your interests, and delivers only the ten best to your inbox — serverless, no API keys, about $0.11 a month.
Amazon S3: almacena archivos de forma simple y segura
Una introducción práctica en español a Amazon S3 para principiantes: aprende qué es, cómo funciona y cuáles son sus principales casos de uso en AWS.
Weekend Creative Agent Challenge: ArchPulse
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Root Account Hygiene: Prevention, Recovery, and the Gap Nobody Talks About
Learn how to prevent root account lockouts, recover inaccessible root emails via AWS Organizations, and build a proactive root hygiene framework for multi-account environments.
Automating Billing Transfer Operations at Scale for AWS Partners
Learn how partners can automate CUR exports, pro forma billing adjustments, reporting, and margin analysis to operate Billing Transfer efficiently at scale.
Daily Poem Agent — An Always-On Creative AI Built on AWS Bedrock
An automated agent that generates and stores a fresh poem every day using Amazon Bedrock, Lambda, S3, and EventBridge Scheduler — no manual triggering needed.
Weekend Creative Agent Challenge: DreamCanvas
DreamCanvas is an always-on bedtime-story agent that creates a gentle illustrated story for a child and delivers it by email at the parent’s selected bedtime. Built with AWS serverless services and Amazon Bedrock, it combines scheduled generation, safety checks, private image storage, and a simple web reader.
Terms and Conditions: Weekend Challenge: Set Your Creative App Free
Official terms for this challenge, running August 21, 2026 at 12:00 AM PT through August 24, 2026 at 1:00 PM PT
Weekend Challenge: Set your creative app free!
Turn your app into an always-on agent per the instructions in this article, and win an AWS Builder Jacket! (Limited quantities). Runs Aug 21 - 24.
Adding Reusable Features to Any CDK Construct with Mixins
CDK Mixins apply reusable features to any construct, L1, L2, or custom, with .with(). A demo-backed walkthrough with real synth output, including the requireAll() ordering trap the launch blog gets wrong.
Adding Semantic Search to an Existing DynamoDB Table with Vector Indexes
See how DynamoDB vector indexes and Bedrock Titan embeddings come together to enable semantic search on your existing tables.
Connecting Your Electron.js App to Amazon Quick Desktop
Your Electron app already has a rich service layer. Amazon Quick Desktop already has an AI agent. Here's how to bridge the two — giving Quick programmatic control over your app's data and visual control over its UI — using MCP servers and Chrome DevTools Protocol.
Reasoning Anchored Delegation (RAD): A Protocol Proposal for Trustworthy Multi Agent Chains
Current AI agent protocols verify who an agent is but not whether what it is doing matches its original mandate. This post proposes RAD (Reasoning Anchored Delegation), a protocol primitive that anchors every delegation in the cryptographic hash of the delegating principal's reasoning, enabling verifiable intent continuity across multi agent chains with no central authority required.
Tech communities are more than networking
Well, you can network for sure, but there are way more amazing things that can happen when you join a community :)
How I Built a Production-Grade MLOps Pipeline on AWS EKS - Zero Static Credentials, Zero ClickOps
A walkthrough of building an end-to-end MLOps pipeline on AWS EKS, covering OIDC keyless authentication, Helm deployments, Prometheus observability, and the debugging sessions that documentation doesn't prepare you for.
CompassAI - AI-Powered AWS Architecture Decision Assistant
CompassAI helps developers design cloud architectures by analyzing application requirements and generating tailored AWS architecture recommendations powered by Amazon Nova Pro on Amazon Bedrock.
Full Stack Challenge: PulseMap
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Building a Leaderboard That Can Handle 5,000 Score Updates Per Second with DynamoDB
Build a high-throughput leaderboard with Amazon DynamoDB using write sharding to handle thousands of score updates per second.Explore Top-N rankings, participant rank, neighboring players, and cross-leaderboard profiles through purpose-built access patterns.Learn how thoughtful DynamoDB data modeling helps balance scalable writes, efficient reads, and unpredictable live-event traffic.
Debugging an MCP Server for EKS: 3 Real Bugs Found Building a Downstream Client
Building a downstream client against my own MCP server surfaced three real bugs: an import-hook conflict, a silent error-parsing gap, and a severity field that lied. Here's each fix.
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Migrating Legacy Systems to Modern Observability: Using AI to Accelerate Instrumentation
A practical guide to using AI to analyze legacy codebases and unstructured logs, turning a months-long manual instrumentation project into a guided, incremental migration.
Intelligent Data Analysis for Observability: Using AI to Surface Root Causes from Logs, Metrics, and Traces
A practical guide to going beyond dashboards, using Python and Amazon Bedrock to turn raw telemetry volume into plain language root cause summaries during an incident
AWS Community Builders Spotlight: August 10th edition
Weekly digest of AWS Community Builders' best content from August 10-August 16, 2026.
AI-DLC Workflow V2のSpaceとIntent: 複数の作業を1つのワークスペースで整理する
機能開発の途中で緊急バグが飛び込んできた。AI-DLCのワークフロー状態はどうなる？ V2ではIntentという仕組みで作業ごとに進捗が独立しています。切り替え1つで、どのステージまで進んだか、どんな決定をしたかを丸ごと復元できます。SpaceとIntentの構造を見ていきましょう。シリーズ第17回。
Your RAG Has the Right Document - but the Wrong Pieces
Why chunking can quietly weaken retrieval in Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases.
Operationalizing Your Steering Strategy: From Local Files to Enterprise Governance
Steering files are the linchpin of AI-DLC — they turn AI coding agents from fast-but-generic into fast-and-precise. But every enterprise team hits the same next question: how do I scale steering beyond a single developer's laptop? This post covers three operational patterns, from Git-native distribution to centralized MCP-based delivery, plus a reference architecture for serving steering context…
Workflow en Strands: un DAG de tareas ejecutado como herramienta única
En estas notas te explico cómo orquestar agentes con la arquitectura Workflow de Strands Agents utilizando paralelismo y join points, ejemplificado con la construcción de un entregable para preparar y gestionar reuniones como Solutions Architect. Testado de dos maneras: con Gemma4 + Ollama (local) y con la API de Gemini.
The Full [Stack] Challenge Terms and Conditions
Official terms, eligibility, and prize details for the Full Stack Challenge on AWS Builder Center.
Enabling Nested Virtualization on Amazon WorkSpaces: GUI, CLI, and PowerShell
Nested virtualization lets you run virtual machines inside an Amazon WorkSpaces Personal WorkSpace useful for developers who need local Docker/Hyper-V based workloads, Windows Sandbox, or Android emulators directly on their virtual desktop.
Claude Code on Amazon Bedrock: Build and Ship an AWS Agent
"Connect Claude Code to Amazon Bedrock with the /setup-bedrock wizard, install the Agent Toolkit for AWS, have it build a flrepetitiveight and weather agent, then deploy that agent to AgentCore Runtime. Plus how to run Claude Desktop on the same setup."
Lessons Learned: Creating Custom Robot Assets for NVIDIA Isaac Sim
If you've ever tried to bring a custom robot into NVIDIA Isaac Sim, you know it's not as simple as "export URDF, import, press play." This post distills the lessons from building a simulation-ready USD asset for the UF850 robot arm with a G2 parallel-jaw gripper — a process that took 16 iterative USD file versions to get right.
कम्युनिटी का घर, बिल्डर्स का अड्डा — AWS Builder Loft इंडिया आ रहा है!
AWS Builder Loft हैदराबाद आ रहा है! वेन्यू का दर्द अब खत्म, कम्युनिटीज़ को मिला अपना परमानेंट फ्री hub। बर्लिन, साओ पाउलो, और हैदराबाद में नए Lofts ओपन हो रहे हैं। AWS Builder Loft is coming to Hyderabad! A permanent free space for builders to connect, learn & create. New locations opening in Berlin, São Paulo & Hyderabad.
Community's Home, Builder's Hub: AWS Builder Loft is Coming to India!
AWS Builder Loft is coming to Hyderabad! As a developer advocate, former AWS Hero, and community volunteer + organizer with 100+ events, I know the venue struggle all too well. Now builders in India get a permanent, free, professional space to connect, learn, and create. New AWS Builder Lofts opening in Berlin, São Paulo, and Hyderabad later this year. This is a game-changer for India's tech…
Architecture Patterns for Claude Platform on AWS
Choosing where to subscribe to Claude Platform on AWS is an architecture decision that's hard to reverse. This post compares four multi-account patterns, explains the trade-offs of each, and recommends the right fit based on your organization's isolation requirements and account structure.
Desacoplamento Transacional: Change Data Capture (CDC) em Alta Escala com Amazon RDS e MSK Connect
Direcionado a arquitetos de soluções seniores, o material orienta o provisionamento serverless do Amazon MSK Connect orquestrando o motor Debezium e a implementação de adaptadores de consumo idempotentes baseados em Arquitetura Hexagonal, assegurando consistência eventual hiper-escalável em ecossistemas nativos da nuvem.
El ciclo de vida de las aplicaciones de IA generativa
La inteligencia artificial generativa es uno de los temas clave para comprender las nuevas capacidades de AWS y prepararte para el examen AWS Certified AI Practitioner. En esta sesión conocerás los conceptos fundamentales para entender su ciclo de vida.
Save Money on AWS S3: Automate Storage Tiering with Terraform 💰
Automate S3 Storage Tiering with Terraform
Building a Centralized Observability Dashboard with OpenTelemetry: Unifying Logs, Metrics, and Traces Across Microservices
A practical, Python-first guide for DevOps and platform teams building unified visibility into distributed systems.
The 4x4: Cloud Operations Community Highlights
4 community picks and 4 AWS picks about Cloud Operations on AWS!
DreamForge
DreamForge isn't just another chatbot. It's a structured AI system that generates **complete adventures** from simple text prompts: - A cinematic title - A detailed world setting - A protagonist with stats (health, energy) - A narrative story with context - 3 meaningful choices - Remix functionality to transform genres - Journey log tracking every decision Users can choose between four modes:…
Weekend Creative Challenge: Roast My Code
Roast My Code is an AI-powered developer tool that turns code reviews into a fun experience. Paste your code, choose a programming language and roast intensity, and get a humorous roast along with technical issues, severity ratings, improvement suggestions, and cleaner refactored code. Designed with an 8-bit retro arcade aesthetic, Roast My Code combines developer humor, creativity, and practical…
Setting Up Your Own AWS Project Felt Big — Until I Actually Did It
How I built my aws free tier project that can be used as simple portfolio piece worth talking about in interviews.
Weekend Creative Challenge: AWS Service Detective
A Detective type game to identify AWS Services with given clues
Fool price-scraping bots with fake data using AWS WAF Bot Control
Fool price-scraping bots with fake data using AWS WAF Bot Control
AI for Dummies: Behind the Dungeon Master’s Screen
A simple introduction to how generative AI works, using tabletop RPG examples to explain concepts like prompts, tokens, context, probabilities, and hallucinations.
How I automated cross-account DocumentDB dump/restore with Step Functions, ECS Fargate and S3 Replication
Serverless pipeline for automated Amazon DocumentDB dump/restore between AWS accounts with cross-region replication, Lambda validation, and Step Functions orchestration. Cost: ~$0.10 per execution.
Kiro Spec Library
A Kiro Crew App which collects and manages Kiro Specs in a GUI.