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How Equinix cut operational overhead with a shared services architecture on Amazon EKS

How Equinix cut operational overhead with a shared services architecture on Amazon EKS

Equinix, the world’s digital infrastructure company, built a shared services architecture on Amazon EKS to eliminate the operational sprawl of its self-managed Kubernetes environment. Learn how a multi-account North Star architecture centralized governance and shared services, delivering 4x faster deployments and 40% less operational overhead.

How DHI Group accelerates generative AI workloads from idea to production using hackathons

How DHI Group accelerates generative AI workloads from idea to production using hackathons

Learn how DHI Group partnered with AWS to move generative AI workloads from idea to production using a structured hackathon. This post covers the Hackathon Acceleration Package, the winning ClearanceJobs and AgileATS agentic architecture on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and the principles that make hackathons a repeatable path to production.

Building resilient real-time streaming workers with Amazon DynamoDB leases

Building resilient real-time streaming workers with Amazon DynamoDB leases

Real-time streaming workers that hold hundreds of persistent WebSocket connections lose data when a worker fails. Learn how to build a WebSocket fleet management system on Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate that uses Amazon DynamoDB conditional writes as a distributed lease to track ownership, fail over automatically, and deploy with low downtime.

Testing Application Resilience with Amazon SQS and AWS Fault Injection Service

Testing application resilience with Amazon SQS and AWS Fault Injection Service

Learn how to use AWS Fault Injection Service and AWS Systems Manager Automation to run progressive chaos experiments against Amazon SQS queues. Validate that your retry logic, circuit breakers, and dead-letter queues actually work under failure before a real outage hits production.

Validating multi-Region DR for Terraform Enterprise with AWS FIS

Validating multi-Region DR for Terraform Enterprise with AWS FIS

Learn how AWS, HashiCorp, and Athenahealth designed and chaos-tested a multi-Region disaster recovery strategy for Terraform Enterprise on AWS. This post walks through three-phase AWS Fault Injection Service experiments across Amazon EC2, Aurora, and Amazon S3, the 12-14 minute recovery times achieved, and the state file dependency pitfall to avoid.

MCP went stateless. Is your AWS MCP Server Deployment Well-Architected?

MCP went stateless: Is your AWS MCP server deployment well-architected?

On July 28, 2026, MCP made its protocol core stateless, removing the initialize handshake and session header. This post maps the MCP 2026-07-28 specification to the AWS Well-Architected Agentic AI Lens, pillar by pillar, and shows why the stateless design lets you delete the sticky sessions and session stores your MCP servers needed on AWS.