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AWS Landing Zone, Part 3: Transit Gateway, Centralized Egress, and Where IPAM Earns Its Keep

By Shrikant Lavhate | Published: | Modified:

Hub-and-spoke with Transit Gateway, centralized egress costs, IPAM before account one, and where VPC Lattice actually fits next to Transit Gateway instead of replacing it.

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AWS Landing Zone, Part 2: SCPs, RCPs, and the Logging That Holds Up Under Audit

By Shrikant Lavhate | Published: | Modified:

How SCPs and RCPs actually differ, how centralized logging holds up under audit, and how IAM Identity Center becomes the one door into a multi-account AWS estate.

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Amazon CloudWatch Managed Prometheus Collectors: Retiring the Self-Managed OTel Collector

By Shrikant Lavhate | Published: | Modified:

AWS’s new CloudWatch Prometheus collector isn’t new tech: it’s the 2023 AMP scraper pointed at a new destination, now with EC2, ECS, and MSK support too.

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SKILL.md: Stop Re-Explaining Your Workflow to Claude Every Session

By Shrikant Lavhate | Published: | Modified:

A practitioner’s walkthrough of Anthropic’s SKILL.md format: what it is, when it earns its place, the exact file structure, and where teams get it wrong.

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AI has two price tags in IT Work — One in Dollars, One in Skill

By Shrikant Lavhate | Published: | Modified:

Uber burned its 2026 AI budget by April. The token bill is the meter you can see — the one eroding your debugging skill doesn’t send an invoice. Both matter.

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