Notes, reviews and field guides on AWS, Azure and agentic AI, written by a working architect for the people who build systems and the people who pay for them.
Azure and AWS both let code run without secrets, but the mental models differ. What each side gets wrong about the other, and a translation table.
How bots found a brand-new site almost immediately, why the usual spam traps didn't stop them, and the four checks that did, at no extra cost.
What Bedrock Guardrails and Azure's Foundry guardrails actually catch, where each one checks, what they miss, and what they cost.
What MCP is, why every vendor suddenly has an MCP server, where the business value is, and what to ask before you connect one to company data.
One "ask the docs" box, priced line by line on AWS and Azure. Where the money really goes, and how the same feature drops from $1,200 to $56 a month.
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