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Consistency is the new latency: AI at the data layer

Consistency is the new latency: AI at the data layer

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.

Building a serverless AI assistant at Pelago: concept to care in two weeks

Healthcare organizations face a critical scaling challenge – how to maintain deeply personalized patient interactions as member bases grow, without overwhelming care teams or compromising quality. At Pelago, a digital health company specializing in substance use disorder support, the engineering team found a way to build an AI-powered solution to address this challenge using AWS […]

Building multi-Region resiliency for AWS CloudFormation custom resource deployment

AWS CloudFormation is the foundational tool of infrastructure-as-code for thousands of organizations running workloads on AWS. But as teams push the boundaries of what CloudFormation can do natively, custom resources have emerged as a powerful extension mechanism that unlocks a broad range of possibilities. Yet, when it comes to building resilient, multi-Region deployments with custom […]

Architecting offline-first generative AI applications for edge deployments using AWS services

According to Siemens’ 2024 report The True Cost of Downtime, Fortune 500 companies lose an estimated $1.4 trillion annually because of unplanned downtime. This downtime is often worsened by a lack of skills to detect and resolve issues quickly. Generative AI offers a promising path to address this, but deploying these capabilities in industrial environments […]