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AWS Landing Zone, Part 1: Control Tower, LZA, or Roll Your Own

By Shrikant Lavhate | Published: August 4, 2026 | Modified: August 4, 2026

Control Tower, LZA, AFT, or custom-built: a field guide to choosing your AWS landing zone approach, plus the account structure that holds up at scale.

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

By Shrikant Lavhate | Published: August 3, 2026 | Modified: August 3, 2026

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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Self-Managed S3 Buckets for Lambda Code: You Finally Own the Artifact

By Shrikant Lavhate | Published: July 31, 2026 | Modified: August 3, 2026

Lambda has quietly kept a second copy of your deployment code all along. A new setting lets your own S3 bucket be the single, auditable source of truth.

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Lambda MicroVMs: When Functions Aren’t Enough and EC2 Is Too Much

By Shrikant Lavhate | Published: July 30, 2026 | Modified: August 3, 2026

Browser notebooks and AI coding sandboxes need a live session between requests. Lambda can’t hold state, EC2 is overkill. MicroVMs sit right in that gap.

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Know about Amazon GuardDuty Investigation: AI-powered security analysis

By Shrikant Lavhate | Published: July 29, 2026 | Modified: August 3, 2026

Security teams burn hours pivoting through CloudTrail and VPC flow logs per GuardDuty finding. A new AI agent now runs that whole investigation for you.

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AWS CloudFormation IaC Generator!

By Shrikant Lavhate | Published: March 12, 2024 | Modified: March 12, 2024

AWS recently introduced the CloudFormation IaC Generator, a powerful tool embedded in the AWS CloudFormation console. This compact yet robust tool simplifies the process of creating CloudFormation templates for existing resources within your AWS account. This blog post, we will take you on a guided tour of this tool, providing step-by-step instructions on how to harness its capabilities effectively.

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Exploring CloudFormation Git Sync!

By Shrikant Lavhate | Published: February 5, 2024 | Modified: February 5, 2024

In November 2023, Amazon unveiled the latest CloudFormation Git Sync feature. Join us as we delve into this innovative addition, unraveling its workings and assessing its implications on Continuous Deployment (CD) patterns within the realm of Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

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How to add a GitHub connection from an AWS account?

By Shrikant Lavhate | Published: February 5, 2024 | Modified: February 5, 2024

In this blog post, we will guide you through a step-by-step process to establish a GitHub connection in an AWS account.

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Exploring the Latest AWS Console-to-Code Feature

By Shrikant Lavhate | Published: February 1, 2024 | Modified: February 1, 2024

On November 2023 AWS announced the Preview going live for the new feature AWS Console-to-Code. Two months later, in this blog, we will explore this feature, learn about how to use it, what are the limitations, etc.

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Scaling with AWS PrivateLink

By Shrikant Lavhate | Published: October 22, 2023 | Modified: October 22, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll walk you through the scalability factors pertaining to AWS PrivateLink. As your organization’s VPC count grows, explore the impact on your AWS PrivateLink infrastructure and management. Learn about considerations that helps to craft a scalable solution that harnesses the power of PrivateLink while minimizing complexity and costs.

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