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From April to July 2026, I ran several Next.js products on AWS Amplify Hosting (AWS's managed service...
Create a GA4 web stream, deploy a one-page smoke test with gtag, and fix Amplify CSP so Analytics, fonts, and inline scripts actually load.
Building a Todo App with Auth0 + AWS Amplify Gen2 + Next.js 16 Introduction AWS...
I compared AWS Amplify and Vercel from an AWS user's seat — pricing, Next.js support, and when Netlify, Cloudflare Pages, or Railway make more sense.
Introduction Part 1 built the foundation of a file portal on top of Amazon FSx for NetApp...
How It All Started It all started when I played the AWS Builder Cards game for the first time at the...
In June 2026, I started reviewing my AWS bill. The goal was not to shave a few dollars off this...
Letting AI agents search and read NAS files through Amazon Bedrock AgentCore over MCP, with a human approving anything destructive.
Reaching NFS/SMB files from a browser and from AI without moving the data. Comparing Amplify Gen2 and Nextcloud on one FSx for ONTAP S3 Access Point.
Driving ransomware detection, containment, immutable snapshots and audit-log review from a browser, on top of ONTAP ARP/AI and SnapLock.
AWS Blocks shipped in public preview promising local-first backend development with no AWS account. I dropped it into a production Amplify Gen2 app to answer three questions: is it a migration, can you really run DynamoDB locally, and how much faster is the dev loop? Here's the hands-on log, gotchas and all.
Same commit, opposite outcome: dev deployed clean, main rolled back every time. The log said only 'Validation failed with 1 error(s)'. The cause was a name two branches were quietly fighting over.