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Same agent, two clouds: a field guide to guardrails
What Bedrock Guardrails and Azure's Foundry guardrails actually catch, where each one checks, what they miss, and what they cost.
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Cloud and AI architecture that works without breaking the budget.
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.
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ATC-006 Agentic AI, guide
Giving a coding agent production database access: the boundary is the grant, not the code
A read-only MCP server for a production MySQL database on RDS. Why the database grant is the real boundary, what else to layer on, and the Azure SQL version.
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ATC-007 AWS, guide
A QR-code redirector with click analytics, for pennies a month
Fast redirects with analytics that never slow the user down. The serverless AWS design, an even cheaper edge version, and the Azure equivalent.
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