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May 29

Lambda Managed Instances with Terraform: Multi-Concurrency, High Memory, and Compute Options

Lambda has always been one request at a time per execution environment. Your function starts, processes a single invocation, and sits idle…

Lambda Managed Instances with Terraform: Multi-Concurrency, High Memory, and Compute Options

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May 16

Live Canary Deployments with AWS SAM, the New WebSocket API Resource, and Lambda Durable Functions

It’s great to see new serverless offerings all the time. Two recent serverless features pair unusually well: Lambda Durable Functions and…

Live Canary Deployments with AWS SAM, the New WebSocket API Resource, and Lambda Durable Functions

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May 1

S3 Files: The End of Download-Process-Upload (with Terraform)

On April 7, 2026, AWS launched S3 Files — a managed NFS v4.1/4.2 layer built on Amazon EFS that provides file-system semantics on top of…

S3 Files: The End of Download-Process-Upload (with Terraform)

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Apr 10

Powertools for AWS Lambda — Best Practices By Default

AWS Lambda Powertools for Python is the library I add to every Lambda function before writing a single line of business logic. While…

Powertools for AWS Lambda — Best Practices By Default

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Mar 24

A Complete Terraform Setup for EKS Auto Mode: Is it right for you?

One of the things I appreciate about AWS is the range of container options available. I recently wrote about why ECS is my default choice…

A Complete Terraform Setup for EKS Auto Mode: Is it right for you?

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May 3

It’s All About That Memory — Using Long and Short Term Memory with Agents

Building a multi-session detective game with AgentCore Memory’s 4 built-in strategies

It’s All About That Memory — Using Long and Short Term Memory with Agents

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Apr 19

Amazon Aurora DSQL: A Practical Guide to AWS’s Distributed SQL Database

Architecture, features, Terraform setup, and real application code — March 2026

Amazon Aurora DSQL: A Practical Guide to AWS’s Distributed SQL Database

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Apr 3

EKS and The Cross-AZ Tax: How to Stop Paying AWS $0.02/GB

I run EKS clusters across three Availability Zones because that’s what production resilience typically demands. You probably do too. But…

EKS and The Cross-AZ Tax: How to Stop Paying AWS $0.02/GB

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Mar 27

AWS Lambda Now Knows Where It Lives: Exploring the New AZ Metadata

Lambda was the last holdout. EC2 has had its Instance Metadata Service since the beginning. ECS and Fargate have their task metadata…

AWS Lambda Now Knows Where It Lives: Exploring the New AZ Metadata

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Mar 18

Elastic Container Service (ECS): My default choice for containers on AWS

Amazon Elastic Container Service is the default AWS service I reach for whenever I need to run containers. Whether it’s a batch processing…

Elastic Container Service (ECS): My default choice for containers on AWS

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Darryl Ruggles

AWS Hero | Principal Cloud Solutions Architect @ Ciena. Serverless, Event-driven architecture, Kubernetes, Rust, Security, Finops, Go, Python

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