AWS Community Builders Spotlight: July 13th Edition

AWSome Content of the week

• Matt Houghton : The prototype is the spec: building the Agent Penalty Shootout Game Read more 
• Prabhakar Reddy : Data Contract Sentinel — LLM-Native Contract Enforcement on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Read more 

Community Spotlight

What you may have missed on Builder Center:

• Belinda Ntinyari:  Serverless at the Duka: Engineering a Cloud Inventory Platform for African SMEs Read more 
• Binod Prasad Joshi : The Ghost in Your AWS Account: Why Your AI Agent Is the New Insider Threat Read more 
• Hector Zelaya : Automated Testing in AWS CodeBuild: Building a Multi-Stage Quality Gate Read more 
• Jorge Tovar :  Building Production AI Agents on AWS Bedrock — Architecture and Code Decisions Worth Keeping in Mind Read more 
• Ramandeep Chandna : How I Migrated VMware Servers to AWS Using AWS Transform and MGN Transform Read more 
• Ryotaro Harada : Testing read and write performance with S3 Files from AWS Lambda Read more 
• Scott Burgholzer : Stop Deploying Blind: Add a Blast Radius Gate to Your CI/CD Pipeline Read more 
• Shintaro Fukatsu : Three Ways to Connect AWS Tokyo and Osaka over a Closed Network — How Much Does Speed Actually Differ? Read more 
• Takashi Iwamoto : Connect Your Bedrock AgentCore Agent to Slack — Without Writing the Slack Part Read more 
• Tanseer Khan : Go Live in Minutes: Building Your First Live Stream with Amazon IVS Read more 
• William McLean : Gemma4 Deployment on AWS Inferentia2 Read more 
• Yuuki Yamashita : I Built an AI Debate Arena on Bedrock — 59 Models Claimed to Work, Only 54 Actually Did Read more 

Blog posts you may have missed:

• Abdulsomad Abdulwahab : Automating Amazon EKS Secrets Encryption Compliance with Terraform, AWS Config, and Real-Time Slack & Email Notifications Read more 
• Akira Nishikawa : Implementing Impossible Location Detection Without Application Changes Using Amazon CloudFront + Lambda@Edge Read more 
• Chibuike Nwachukwu : Beyond Boolean Toggles: Data-Rich Feature Flags with AWS AppConfig and Python CDK Read more 
• Daniel Pepuho : LLM on EKS: Scaling with Ray & Karpenter Read more 
• Dennis Kori : DevOps Meets Event-Driven Architecture: Orchestrating Kiro-CLI, Lambda, and MCP Agents for Autonomous AWS DevOps and FinOps Read more 
• Gloria Boakye : Build Your First AWS REST API the Smart Way — Unit & Integration Tests, Live Docs, and Infrastructure as Code Read more 
• John Ajera : Amazon VPC IPAM Multi-Account Walkthrough Read more 
• M. Abdullah Bin Aftab : Building Distributed Tracing for a Data-Intensive Platform: The X-Ray Journey on AWS Read more 
• Manas Mondal : AWS Transform Custom with KIRO: Automating .NET Lambda Runtime Upgrade Read more 
• Mario Lechonzak : Least-Privilege Egress on EKS with AWS Network Firewall Read more 
• Naoya Yamamoto : Transforming Automated Testing with DevOpsAgent Read more 
• Oğulcan Doğan : Cabin Cross Check: We’re Beginning Our Descent Read more 
• Pawan Sawalani : Continuous PCI DSS Segmentation Testing on AWS — with VPC Reachability Analyzer and a Bedrock-Powered QSA Assistant Read more 
• Piotr Pabis : Amazon Transcribe with Hermes Agent - Custom STT Plugin Read more 
• Shahed Kazi : A Practical Guide to Migrating from Transit Gateway to AWS Cloud WAN Read more 
• Toshiaki Yano : Hitting the Iceberg REST Catalog Directly: Understanding the Differences Between Glue Data Catalog and S3 Tables Read more 
• Utkarsh Rastogi : Tracking AWS KMS Costs by Service — When Cost Explorer Can't Help Read more 
• Vinayak Pandey : How I Replaced Self-Managed GitLab Runners With Lambda MicroVMs Read more 

• Kelechi Oliver Azorji : [FEATURE] Add OpenSearch datasource and log query plugin with PPL support Read more 

And now for something a little different...

• Venkatesh K:  Interactive 3D AWS Global Infrastructure Explorer Read more