Category: Best Practices

In Part 2 of our Bulk Executor for Amazon DynamoDB series, we share how we built the tool: the design tradeoffs, surprises, and workarounds we hit while working with DynamoDB and AWS Glue. Consider it a travel guide for anyone building their own bulk tooling on AWS Glue.

Learn how to architect a highly available Oracle Database environment on Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. This post covers EC2 bare metal instance selection, vSAN and FSx storage tiering, NSX networking, and SnapMirror cross-region disaster recovery for enterprises preserving their VMware operational tooling.

Combine zero-shot forecasting with Amazon Chronos2 and multi-agent orchestration on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to turn demand forecasts into validated purchase orders. No per-product model training, with business rules, auditability, and cost that scales to zero.

As AI agents move from chatbots to taking action, their reliability depends on the consistency of the data layer beneath them. This post examines how replication lag poisons an agent’s context and shows how to match Amazon Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Keyspaces replication models to each task’s consistency requirements.

Learn three strategies for achieving disaster recovery while meeting data residency requirements. Ranging from encryption-based controls on multi-Region replication to fully in-country architectures, these patterns help you balance recovery objectives with regulatory constraints.

In this post, we show you how to run a one-hour prioritization session with your stakeholders, plot competing initiatives on a shared matrix by cost and impact and turn the result into an actionable architecture backlog – using a framework called Tech Roadmap Prioritization (TRP).

October 2026: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. Ransomware and other destructive events can compromise not just your production environment but the backups, credentials, and infrastructure you depend on for recovery. Cyber recovery addresses this case: restoring workloads to a known-good state when you cannot trust your own recovery inputs. In this post, […]

Organizations face critical architectural decisions that can impact their operations for years to come such as: Is it better to maintain a single organization or implement multiple organizations? In this post, I explain the key advantages and disadvantages of both approaches and the scenarios where each model fits best.

This post explores the architectural patterns, challenges, and best practices for building cross-partition failover, covering network connectivity, authentication, and governance. By understanding these constraints, you can design resilient cloud-native applications that balance regulatory compliance with operational continuity.

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