AI Foundation models in electric power systems

Foundation models for power systems are an emerging transformative technology focused on how we approach grid analytics. Instead of relying on traditional task‑specific tools, these models draw on large‑scale Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems trained on extensive power system data, allowing them to support a wide range of operational and planning tasks with far greater speed and […]

Governing Agent Behavior Over Time: Dogwood Temporal Policies in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

The gap in point-in-time authorization AgentCore Policy decides, on every tool call, whether an agent’s action is allowed. It launched with Cedar, which is fast, readable, and analyzable. Cedar also gives a guarantee that audit and enforcement depend on: identical requests yield identical decisions, regardless of evaluation order or system state. That guarantee comes from Cedar […]

I Suspected Jira Was Burning My AI Tokens. The Data Told a More Complicated Story

Over the past few months, I had watched the token usage in my AI development workflow creep upward. Some of that was expected. The codebase was growing, my agents had more instructions, and I was asking them to handle longer tasks. Still, the increase was large enough that I started examining every source of context. […]

Terraform and configuration validation

The infrastructure-as-code (IaC) programming language Terraform is an amazing tool in cloud engineering, primarily for its declarative and cloud-agnostic nature. It provides cloud provisioning and maintenance capabilities that scale with your objectives, from local experimentation to full-on production development. This article will highlight Terraform’s ability to validate variables when referencing the state file, before and […]

The Agent Is the Easy Part

What AWS Summit New York 2026 taught me about the infrastructure, identity, context, and governance behind production AI. On June 17, I walked into the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center expecting the usual conference rhythm: a keynote, a crowded expo floor, and more sessions than anyone could attend. With more than 200 learning experiences, choosing a […]

Why Databricks Still Makes Me Think Harder Than I Expected

Designing good data engineering flows and not avoiding the real tradeoffs I have been building data pipelines for five years now. Multiple clouds, enough SQL to fill a novel, and more Spark jobs than I can count. Every time I come back to Databricks, it makes me rethink something I thought I already understood. Not because it is […]

AWS Partner Revenue Measurement (PRM) Program

The Partner Revenue Measurement (PRM) program is an AWS initiative that measures service consumption driven by partner services and solutions. Quantifying the AWS consumption that partners generate across customer accounts has long been a challenge; PRM is AWS’s latest attempt to address this by providing automated, data-driven measurement across both partner and customer accounts. For partners, consumption […]

How I studied for and passed the AWS AI Practitioner (AIF-C01) Exam

Straight to the point. Why study for the AIF-C01 exam? This exam covers the AWS cloud, AWS services, and AWS artificial intelligence (AI) services, with growing emphasis on AWS security services. For aspiring and current data engineers or generative AI (genAI) developers, preparing for this exam will introduce AWS and its AI capabilities. The main benefits are […]

Agentic Readiness Analysis (ARA): The Step Most Teams Skip Before Building AI Agents

The Problem No One Talks About Everyone is building AI agents. Few are asking the right question first: Are my systems actually ready to be called by one? Many organizations build agents on top of systems that fundamentally don’t support them. The vulnerabilities were always there. Agents just amplify them at machine speed, and what was […]

Strands Multi-Agent Patterns: Which One Should You Use?

When I started building multi-agent systems with Strands Agents, the first decision I faced was architectural: which pattern fits my use case? Knowing what is available upfront saves you from reinventing the wheel — or worse, discovering mid-build that you picked the wrong structure. Strands offers five distinct patterns. Understanding each one lets you pick the […]