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AWS for the Real World
We teach AWS for the real world - not for certifications. Join more than 10,500 developers learning how to build real-world applications on AWS.
AWS FOR THE REAL WORLD β±οΈ Reading time: 11 minutes π― Main Learning: Most teams should stay serverless. EKS only pays off at real scale. π Blog Post Hey Reader ππ½For years we told everyone the same thing: don't run Kubernetes! And we meant it. Running k8s yourself is a second full-time job. Cluster upgrades, etcd backups, some networking plugin that falls over on a Tuesday and nobody can say why.We're serverless people through and through. Lambda first, a queue behind it, scale to zero, go...
AWS FOR THE REAL WORLD β±οΈ Reading time: 12 minutes π― Main Learning: Most of the complaints in the viral "leaving AWS" post are skill issues β but egress pricing is a fair hit. π Blog Post Hey Reader ππ½Recently, a post with the title "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left" hit 810 upvotes on Hacker News last week and went pretty viral with it.I read it twice before forming an opinion. My honest take: most of the complaints are skill issues! π€·βοΈNevertheless, the post is well written and...
AWS FOR THE REAL WORLD β±οΈ Reading time: 10 minutes π― Main Learning: Describe the agent: model, prompt, tools and AWS runs the orchestration loop behind one API call! π Blog Post Hey Reader ππ½ If you've ever built an agent on AWS, you know the pain: glue Bedrock, Lambda, and DynamoDB together, grab LangGraph or Strands, then also own the orchestration loop, the memory layer, and your own tracing. π A "simple" agent ends up with multiple layers of pain.AWS just shipped something that takes most...