Category: Best Practices

In this post, we cover a high-level view of the Smartsheet remote MCP architecture, with a focus on the AWS infrastructure behind it. This includes security, governance, scaling and deployment, and the AI-specific optimizations Smartsheet built on AWS.

In this post, we show where MCP tool design goes wrong and how to fix it with practical context engineering approaches.

In this post, we walk through what Dataset Enrichment is, how it differs from legacy Topics, and provide three migration scenarios with step-by-step guidance so you can move your business context into the dataset layer with confidence.

Today, we are excited to announce Multi-Dataset Relationships in Amazon Quick Sight. This new capability lets you define logical relationships between Quick Sight datasets and perform runtime joins at query time. Instead of flattening tables ahead of time, you keep each table as its own Quick Sight dataset and declare how those datasets relate to one another inside a Quick Sight Topic.

In this post, we shift from concepts to patterns. For each schema, you’ll find a table structure, use cases, implementation steps, and sample SQL queries. We also cover workarounds for advanced scenarios that require extra modeling steps, and close with a summary of current limitations.

This post is for data architects, business intelligence (BI) engineers, and analytics engineers building or optimizing Quick Sight Topics for natural-language Chat-based exploration.

Social engineering through phishing remains one of the most common tactics for launching cyberattacks. AI-generated phishing email messages now pose a new challenge for security teams managing email systems, significantly raising the risk because of their advanced sophistication. Modern social engineers use generative AI and open source intelligence (OSINT) to craft thousands of unique messages […]

In this post, you will learn five practical patterns for building resilient generative AI applications on AWS, progressing from native Amazon Bedrock features to multi-model orchestration using an LLM gateway. These patterns address real-world challenges such as quota exhaustion during unexpected traffic surges, maximizing availability through geographic distribution of inference, and helping prevent noisy neighbor problems in multi-tenant environments.

In this post, we cover best practices for implementing an effective backup strategy for BI assets in Quick Sight. We start by covering the options for selecting the assets to include in your backup, then explain the high-level APIs available for that purpose, and finalize with sample code to help you get started quickly.

This post shows you how to configure training jobs on Amazon SageMaker AI to get the most out of Blackwell’s architecture on AWS. You learn how to select batch sizes and sequence lengths that take advantage of Blackwell’s expanded memory, choose the right precision format for your model size (1B to 64B parameters), and apply activation checkpointing strategically. By the end, you have a practical framework for tuning your training configuration and launching distributed training jobs on P6-B200 instances.