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August 2, 2026 · Cost engineering
What twelve live AWS environments cost us last month
Our entire demo portfolio, twelve production-grade AWS environments plus this website, billed $8.84 in July. The patterns that keep it there are the same ones we apply to client workloads.
Read the note →August 2, 2026 · Migration
How to move a small-business website to AWS without breaking your email
The risky part of a website move is not the website. It is the DNS zone that carries your mail. This is the order of operations that made our own cutover boring.
Read the note →August 2, 2026 · GenAI
Public GenAI demos that cannot run up the bill
Anyone on the internet can use our Bedrock-backed assistant and model workbench, yet the worst-case daily spend is a number we computed before launch. Here is the guardrail stack.
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