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Stop thinking of the AWS European Sovereign Cloud as just “another region in Germany.” It isn’t. Architecturally, aws-eusc is a Partition. It is a hard fork of the AWS control plane, similar to AWS GovCloud or AWS China. It has its own IAM root, its own billing system, and its own DNS structure. If you…
Debunking the myth that AWS Lambda can’t power real GenAI workloads by redefining the boundary between the “Brain” and the “Nerves.” Debunking the myth that AWS Lambda can’t power real GenAI workloads requires redefining one boundary. Not technology — anatomy. The difference between the Brain and the Nerves. I recently ignited a firestorm on Reddit…
“Write once, run anywhere.” It’s the oldest lie in distributed computing. Java promised it in the 90s. Docker promised it in the 2010s. Now, cloud vendors promise it—usually right before they lock you into a proprietary service mesh or a database that only exists in us-east-1. Let’s be real for a minute: Infrastructure is not…
If you had told me in 2024 that I’d be running production GenAI workloads on AWS Lambda, I would have laughed you out of the room. Back then, Lambda was for glue code, JSON shuffling, and maybe a cron job. The idea of shoving a memory-hungry, GPU-craving LLM into a 15-minute ephemeral function felt like…
I still remember the first “cloud” Disaster Recovery (DR) plan I reviewed back in 2012. The team assumed that because their app was running on AWS, it was magically invincible. “It’s in the cloud,” they said. “Amazon handles that.” Six months later, us-east-1 had a wobble, and that team spent 14 hours manually rebuilding databases…
The “Gap of Grief”: While cloud providers speed ahead with new features, infrastructure-as-code tools often carry a heavy load of legacy support, creating a measurable lag. I’ve been designing cloud infrastructures for over 15 years, and the story is always the same. You see a flashy announcement at re:Invent or Ignite—maybe it’s a new high-performance…
By 2025, the boardroom debate about “moving to the cloud” is largely over. It has been replaced by the far more complex engineering reality of managing the resulting sprawl. The discussion around Hybrid vs Multi-Cloud in 2025 has gained traction as businesses seek optimal solutions for their infrastructure needs. Understanding Hybrid vs Multi-Cloud in 2025…
Introduction: The “Lift and Shift” Trap You’ve successfully migrated your first workload. The terraform applied cleanly, the latency looks good, and the boss is happy. Then, 30 days later, the first bill arrives. It’s 40% higher than your estimate. Welcome to the “Lift and Shift” trap. For traditional sysadmins, “capacity” was a sunk cost. If…
Same Destination, Different Vehicles By now, the concept of a “Landing Zone” is well understood in the enterprise. It is the pre-configured, secure, and scalable foundation upon which workloads are deployed. It’s the antidote to the “wild west” of unmanaged cloud accounts and subscriptions. For Solution Engineers and Architects working in multi-cloud environments, simply knowing…
The Evolving Role of the SE in a Governed Cloud World The days of simply spinning up a single AWS account for a customer are long gone. By 2025, cloud environments will be inherently complex, multi-account, and highly regulated. Solution Engineers (SEs) are no longer The role of the Solution Engineer is evolving. By 2025,…
