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Build an 8-Bit AI Architecture Generator (Next.js & Groq)
Have you ever wanted to build a completely custom AI Architecture Generator, but got stuck trying to force a language model to output perfectly valid diagram syntax? Downloading a standard flowchart library is rarely plug-and-play. You wire up the code, run it, and immediately hit walls, from struggling to [...]
App Deployment Is More Than Just Writing Code
When I first started learning about application development, I thought creating an app was mostly about writing code, designing the interface, and making sure the features worked. Once the application was built, I assumed the next step would be to publish it and let people use it. However, as [...]
Setting up Amazon SES for a Lightsail Based Application
On this article, you will learn how you can send emails from AWS Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) on applications hosted in AWS Lightsail, a virtual private server. You will learn how to verify a sending domain, connect your application, and prepare to send password resets, notifications, and newsletters. [...]
How to Build an AI-Powered Django Notes App for Free
Have you ever wanted to build a completely custom AI-powered note-taking app, but got stuck trying to make the backend talk to modern language models? Downloading a starter Django repository is rarely plug-and-play. You clone the code, run it, and immediately hit walls, from struggling to securely [...]
What’s New with the AWS Certified Developer Associate (DVA-C03)?
If you are preparing for the AWS Certified Developer – Associate (DVA-C02) exam, you may be wondering what the new DVA-C03 exam means for you. AWS is updating this certification to match the skills developers use today—such as building apps on AWS, using AI tools to help write and [...]
What’s New with the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional (SAP-C03)?
If you have been preparing for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (SAP-C02) exam, you may be wondering what the upcoming SAP-C03 update means for your study plan. AWS is refreshing the certification to reflect the broader responsibilities of today’s solutions architects—from designing reliable, cost-efficient systems to integrating [...]
Vera Rubin: NVIDIA’s Blueprint for the Agentic AI Era
If AI keeps getting smarter, can the infrastructure behind it keep up? Artificial intelligence is rapidly moving beyond simply generating answers. Modern AI systems are becoming capable of reasoning through problems, using external tools, retrieving information, executing tasks, and deciding what to do next. This is the idea behind [...]
Multi-Agent AI Isn’t What You Think: Here’s What’s Really Happening Under the Hood
Multi-Agent AI Isn’t What You Think: Here’s What’s Really Happening Under the Hood What if I told you that a “team of AI agents” can sometimes be the same language model being called multiple times with different instructions? No digital employees sitting inside a virtual office. No group of [...]
AI-Powered Support Ticket Analyzer with Claude on Amazon Bedrock
The AI-Powered Support Ticket Analyzer uses Claude on Amazon Bedrock to classify, prioritize, summarize, and route customer support tickets. It helps determine whether a ticket can receive an AI-generated response or requires human review. Support teams often receive a mix of billing concerns, technical issues, account-access problems, product questions, [...]
Meet QUERY: The New HTTP Method for Complex Queries
HTTP has been around for decades, and most developers are already familiar with methods like GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE. These methods are the building blocks behind many of the websites, applications, and APIs we use every day. For simple tasks, they work remarkably well. But as modern applications [...]

Amazon Aurora Machine Learning

Amazon Aurora Machine Learning is a proprietary technology of Amazon that enables a native SQL user to integrate Machine Learning-based predictions to an application without knowing or understanding any machine learning algorithms. Machine learning heavily relies on datasets for it to work. You can say that data is the oil that keeps the engine of machine learning running. There is a massive amount of data generated every day. To give you an idea, according [...]

NEW EXAM VERSION – AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate SOA-C02 vs SOA-CO1

AWS previously announced a new update on the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate exam. This certification exam is designed for individuals who have at least a year of hands-on experience with networking, management, deployment, and security on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform. The sample exam questions can be found in this link. The beta version of the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate (SOA-C02) exam was made available from February 16 to March 26, 2021. The [...]

Logging Using awslogs Log Driver in Amazon ECS

Monitoring and logging can be as important as developing and deploying applications. Imagine managing an enterprise-level distributed application that runs on hundreds of containers. You must place your containers cleverly on instances to achieve a certain level of resilience and performance. On top of that, you would want to have visibility into CPU and memory usage so you’ll have an idea which task/tasks are resource-hungry at a given time. You may also want to [...]

AWS Savings Plan

AWS Savings Plan Cheat Sheet Savings Plan is a flexible pricing model that helps you save up cost on Amazon EC2, AWS Fargate, and AWS Lambda usage. You can purchase Savings Plans from any account, payer or linked. By default, the benefit provided by Savings Plans is applicable to usage across all accounts within an AWS Organization/consolidated billing family. You can also choose to restrict the benefit of Savings Plans to only the account [...]

NEWS: AWS re:Invent 2020 will be Hosted Online and Registration is FREE!

NEWS: AWS re:Invent 2020 will be Hosted Online and Registration is FREE! AWS re:Invent is a conference organized by Amazon Web Services for the cloud computing community. Since 2012, the conference has always been held in Las Vegas, but this time it’s going to be different. This 3-week conference will now be hosted online, and take note that this event is FREE for everyone. To join AWS re:Invent 2020 on November 30 - December [...]

AWS Glue

Bookmarks Use Cases Concepts Populating the AWS Glue Data Catalog Authoring Jobs Glue DataBrew Monitoring Security Pricing Validate Your Knowledge AWS Glue Cheat Sheet A fully managed service to extract, transform, and load (ETL) your data for analytics. Discover and search across different AWS data sets without moving your data. AWS Glue consists of: Central metadata repository ETL engine Flexible scheduler Use [...]

Managing Amazon GuardDuty Security Findings Across Multiple Accounts

In our previous article, we discussed how GuardDuty can help organizations monitor their workloads and AWS accounts from malicious activities and how to monitor findings with Amazon CloudWatch Events. Imagine that your organization has multiple AWS accounts for different workloads, teams, and projects. With every account, you need to monitor GuardDuty findings individually. It will be quite difficult for your security team to monitor these findings with their constant switching between AWS accounts. Amazon [...]

Monitoring GuardDuty Findings with Amazon CloudWatch Events

Large scale cyber attacks are now becoming normal in this age of interconnectivity. As we rely more and more on cloud technologies, companies are looking to tap into digital innovations to improve their businesses. Cyber attacks are costing companies millions of dollars of downtime not to mention the possibility of lawsuits whenever an attack occurs. It is imperative that security teams have the means to prevent, detect, and take actions to ensure that the [...]

Aurora Serverless Tutorial Part 2

In the first part of this tutorial, we gave a walkthrough on Aurora Serverless and its use case. You can read the article here. For this tutorial, we will do some hands-on training and create an Aurora Serverless database. Creating an Aurora Serverless Database: 1. Open the AWS console and go to RDS. Click the button “Create database”. 2. Choose Amazon Aurora. You can either choose MySQL or PostgreSQL compatibility. In this tutorial, we [...]

Aurora Serverless Tutorial – Part 1

What is Aurora Serverless? Before we get into it, let us briefly define Aurora and serverless first. Aurora is a fully managed, closed source relational database that is compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL. According to Amazon, it is five times faster than the standard MySQL and three times faster than PostgreSQL. It uses a distributed architecture that provides fault tolerance and high availability. Serverless is a technique in the cloud that follows the ‘pay-per-use’ [...]