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Multi-Region Resilience: Patterns and Pitfalls
Multi-region architectures are more accessible than ever, but the operational and cost realities still surprise teams. Here are the patterns that work, the pitfalls that show up consistently, and a framework for deciding what level of multi-region you actually need.
AI Agents in Your DevOps Workflow: What Actually Works
After a year of operating AI agents in DevOps workflows, we have a clearer picture of where they earn their keep and where they create more risk than value. Here's what's actually worked.
State of AWS DevOps, 2026 Edition
A year-ahead look at where AWS DevOps practice is heading: the patterns we expect to be standard by year-end, the ones that won't pan out, and what teams should invest in now.
re:Invent 2025: The DevOps Highlights
Our take on re:Invent 2025 - the announcements that matter for AWS DevOps teams heading into 2026, organized by the impact on day-to-day work.
re:Invent 2025 Preview: What We're Watching
A short preview of the announcement areas we expect to define re:Invent 2025, and the questions we'll be evaluating each one against.
What ECS Actually Costs: Real Numbers from Real Workloads
ECS pricing pages tell you the unit costs. They don't tell you what the bill actually looks like once a workload is running for a year. Here are anonymized numbers from three real client workloads, and the cost levers that mattered most.
re:Inforce 2025: The Boring Security Wins
re:Inforce is where the unglamorous, load-bearing security improvements get announced. Here are the four updates from this year that we think are worth your team's attention.
Bedrock Agents in Production: Lessons from the Field
Six months of running Bedrock Agents in client production environments has taught us where they shine, where they fail, and what operational disciplines you need in place before turning them on.
Aurora DSQL Is GA: What We Found in Our Pilot
Aurora DSQL went GA on May 27, 2025. We've been running it in a pilot for a few months. Here's what held up, what surprised us, and how our recommendation has shifted since the March decision-framework post.
ECS, EKS, or Lambda in 2025: A Decision Framework
The 2020-era heuristics for choosing between ECS, EKS, and Lambda no longer hold. Fargate pricing has changed, ECS has closed feature gaps with EKS, and Lambda's payload limits keep loosening. Here's how we think about the choice today.
When Distributed SQL Is the Right Answer (and When It Isn't)
Aurora DSQL fills a real gap in the AWS database lineup, but distributed SQL isn't the right default. Here's the decision framework we use with clients to figure out where it fits.
S3 Tables: Should You Migrate Your Data Lake?
S3 Tables is AWS's managed Apache Iceberg service. Whether to migrate depends on how much Iceberg operational work you're already doing, and how much of your stack is locked into Glue.
re:Invent 2024: A DevOps Engineer's Take
Cutting through the noise of re:Invent 2024: the five announcements we think actually matter for the day-to-day work of running production workloads on AWS.
AWS Summit Los Angeles
We attended the AWS Summit Los Angeles and learned about the AI offerings that AWS has developed, like Q and Bedrock. AI seems poised to grow tremenously over the next years, and AWS is leveraging its strong security foundations to enable companies to take advantage of AI in a secure way.
Is fear keeping you away from the Cloud?
If you're worried and still unsure about cloud migration, here's some common fears and why you should move past them.
AWS to use 100% renewable energy by 2025
Amazon co-founded The Climate Pledge in 2019 to be powered by 100% renewable energy by 2040, and AWS has recently announced they will be meeting that goal 15 years early in 2025!
Ordinary Experts Advanced Consulting Partner Plaque
Ordinary Experts displays its new AWS Advanced Consulting Partner Plaque.
Ordinary Experts achieves AWS Advanced Consulting Partner
Today we have been recognized as an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, the third of four tiers in the AWS Partner Program!
AWS re:Invent 2017 Review
Our review of AWS re:Invent 2017 - Fargate, Private Link, and Inter-Region VPC Peering.
Ordinary Experts achieves AWS Standard Consulting Partner
Today we officially became an AWS Standard Consulting Partner, the second of four tiers in the AWS Partner Program!
AWS re:Invent 2016 Review
Our review of AWS re:Invent 2016 - serverless, big data, and AI.