AWS Community Builders Spotlight: July 20th Edition

Weekly digest of AWS Community Builders' best content from July 20-27, 2026.

Series: AWS Community Builders Spotlight (29 articles)

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Corey Strausman

Developer Community Manager (Supporting AWS Heroes and Community Builders) at AWS

Published Jul 29, 2026

Last modified Aug 5, 2026

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Welcome back to another edition of this week's   AWS Community Builders  Spotlight! With so much great content being created every day, I realized we had no way of spotlighting it to the world. So here I am, sharing my picks in hopes you'll find these pieces as interesting as I do.
Before I share the content you may have missed, a quick disclaimer: Although I'm an AWS employee, any and all opinions here are my own.
AWSome Content of the weekThis week, we are spotlighting  Andres Moreno , for their AWSome piece,  Skip the Middleman: Connecting Your UI Directly to an AI Agent via WebSocket . AWSome work Andres!
Community SpotlightWhat you may have missed on Builder Center: Binod Prasad Joshi : Why Your Serverless Architecture Becomes Monolithic Without You Noticing  Read more 
 Ciprian-Paul Ciurean : The Multi-Account Terraform Setup Nobody Talks About  Read more 
 Daniel Morales : Building an AI Penetration Testing Platform with MCP and Amazon Bedrock  Read more 
 Elena van Engelen - Maslova : Lessons Learned: Shipping a Koog + Bedrock AI Agent to Production on AWS Lambda  Read more 
 Eric Nyuydze Wiryenkfea : Building an AI-Augmented Cloud Monitoring Stack: From 25-Minute MTTD to 5 Minutes with Terraform, Prometheus, and Splunk MLTK  Read more 
 Farah Abdirahman : I Built a Healthcare Prior Authorization Agent on AgentCore  Read more 
 Fawaz C P : AWS DevOps Agent from Sratch: Cross-Cloud Integration with Azure  Read more 
 Hector Zelaya : CodeDeploy on EC2: From First Deployment to Blue/Green  Read more 
 Jason Kao : Authorization Bypass in Amazon Quick: Unauthorized AI Chat Agent Usage  Read more 
 John Doyle : When RDS Storage Disappears and It Isn't Your Data  Read more 
 Jordi Garcia Castillon : Building a Serverless CiberIA Cognitive Security Assessment Pipeline with Amazon Bedrock  Read more 
 Jorge Tovar : Creating a Rest API with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) & Serverless (Lambda + Python)  Read more 
 N Chandra Prakash Reddy  and  Adit Modi : Scaling Custom LLMs on EKS: Trainium and Inferentia2-Powered AI Infrastructure  Read more 
 Sabarish Sathasivan : Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base: A Developer's Take  Read more 
 Saugat Tiwari : Building with Amazon Quick: A Product Builder's Guide to AWS's Agentic AI Platform  Read more 
 Tanseer Khan : Build and Deploy a 3 Tier Serverless App on AWS with Terraform Modules  Read more 
 Venkata Pavan Vishnu Rachapudi : AWS Secrets Manager Now Rotates Your GitLab Tokens For You — No Lambda Required  Read more 
 Vidit Shah : Streaming Files From a URL Directly to Amazon S3 in an S3Client  Read more 
 William McLean : Five Gemma-4 models, one accelerator: what porting E2B → 31B to AWS Inferentia2 taught me  Read more 
 Yuuki Yamashita : I Built an AI Mystery Shopper for Government Forms — Then Watched It Find Bugs I Didn't Plant  Read more 
Blog posts you may have missed: Abdulsomad Abdulwahab : Automating IAM Policy Compliance with Terraform, AWS Config, and Real-Time Slack & Email Notifications****  Read more 
 Akira Nishikawa : Implementing a JA4H-Equivalent Fingerprint with Amazon CloudFront Functions to Mitigate Bot Traffic  Read more 
 Ashish Kasaudhan : Beyond Observability: An Agentic Approach to AWS Production Triage  Read more 
 Carlos Biagolini : Building a Serverless MCP Server on AWS with IAM Authentication  Read more 
 Johannes Geiger : Event-Driven Architecture with Aurora DSQL Change Data Capture  Read more 
 Kirill Solovei : AWS Lambda MicroVMs  Read more 
 Tanya Vo : Accelerating Infrastructure Deployment with the New CloudFormation Express Mode  Read more 
 Tom Reid : Introducing the Agent Toolkit for Amazon Web Services  Read more 
 Toshiaki Yano : Verifying How IAM and Lake Formation Behave for the Glue REST Catalog and S3 Tables  Read more 
 Utkarsh Rastogi : Tracking AWS KMS Costs by Service — When Cost Explorer Can't Help  Read more 
 Vinayak Pandey : MCP Server That Lets AI Query Your Database Safely  Read more 
Repo(s) you may have missed: Scott Burgholzer : Test Coverage Gap Detector — Kiro Hook  Read more 
Video(s) you may have missed: Robert J Berger : Informed Doc Admin Studio: Serverless Full-Stack Build/Deploy with Topology Composer tc  Watch now 
Now that I've shared what you may have missed, I'd love to hear what I might have missed. Drop a comment below!