AWS Community Builders Spotlight: July 27th Edition

Weekly digest of AWS Community Builders' best content from July 27-August 2, 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 Aug 5, 2026

Last modified Aug 5, 2026

Fifteen CB Spotlights later here we are to shine a light on the great content from our global community. I was trying to think of something witty and clever, but honestly after fifteen of these you really start to run out of material ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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  Ryan Cormack , for their AWSome piece,  Going Quickly with Quick and Kiro . AWSome work Ryan!
Community SpotlightWhat you may have missed on Builder Center: Abhishek Mishra : Why IAM Alone Isn't Enough for AI Agents: Building Runtime Governance on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore  Read more 
 Carla Marcela Florida Roman : AWS Strands Agents vs LangChain: A Practical Guide to Choosing the Right Framework  Read more 
 Christian Perez : A Developer's Field Guide to Amazon Braket  Read more 
 Dhilip S E : PadippuAI — Building Tamil Nadu's First Open Engineering-Admissions MCP Server with Amazon Nova Pro  Read more 
 Emmanuel Ulu : My Step Functions Workflow Kept Losing Data and AWS Never Threw an Error.  Read more 
 George Rolston : GitHub OIDC Changes That Can Break AWS Deployments  Read more 
 Hector Zelaya : CloudFormation from Scratch: Building a Production-Ready VPC Step by Step  Read more 
 Hein Htet Win : Reaching S3 Privately from On-Premises: A Site-to-Site VPN + Interface Endpoint Walkthrough  Read more 
 James Gabriele Torzar : What's actually in Kiro IDE 1.0  Read more 
 Jorge Tovar : Zero Downtime Deployment in AWS with Tofu/Terraform and SAM  Read more 
 Masahiko Murakami:  Hosting TanStack Start SSR on AWS with AWS Blocks  Read more 
 Mobeen Ahmed : Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory: Giving AI Agents the Ability to Remember  Read more 
 N Chandra Prakash Reddy  and  Yeshwanth L M : AWS Bedrock VPC Flow Log Analyzer  Read more 
 Rajpreet Gill : From Static Portfolios to Living Knowledge Platforms: How I Built My AWS Community Builder Portfolio with AI and AWS  Read more 
 Ramandeep Chandna : How I Built an IT Operations Agent That Actually Fixes Things (Not Just Reports Them)  Read more 
 Saddam Azad : Chat with Your Documents: Building a RAG Pipeline with AWS Blocks  Read more 
 Sankalp Sandeep Paranjpe : Memory Poisoning Attack in AI Agents - Attack vectors and defenses on AWS  Read more 
 Tanseer Khan : Terraform State Locking Without DynamoDB: S3 Native Locking Explained  Read more 
 Yuuki Yamashita : Anatomy of the CloudFront VPC Origins Outage: When Going Private Becomes Your Single Point of Failure  Read more 
Content you may have missed: Abdulsomad Abdulwahab : From Compliance to Visibility: Building an AWS EKS Compliance & Governance Dashboard with AWS Security Hub  Read more 
 Ajith Manmadhan : Running Untrusted Code on AWS Lambda MicroVMs  Read more 
 Alexey Baltacov : Best Practices for Managing AWS WAF with Code  Read more 
 Alexey Vidanov : I tested the new OpenSearch Agent Toolkit skill. Here's what it actually does  Read more 
 Ashish Kasaudhan : Terraform Testing in 2026 — Stop Shipping Untested IaC  Read more 
 Carlos Filho : Enforcing SSE-KMS on S3 buckets across all AWS accounts  Read more 
 Ercan Ermiş : Agents on Call  Read more 
 Khushi Nandwani : AWS Disaster Recovery Automation Framework  Read more 
 Manas Mondal : Optimizing Analytics Workloads with Amazon S3 Tables and Native Iceberg Support  Read more 
 Marc Campora : SageMaker Unified Studio: Share a notebook  Read more 
 Mary Becken : LLM Routers- Make Good Choices!  Read more 
 Oğulcan Doğan : Having a Key Doesn't Always Open Every Door: IAM Roles Anywhere  Read more 
 Sarvar Nadaf : 4 Silent Failures, 2 Undocumented APIs, and a Container That Crashed Because of a Missing User Directive  Read more 
 Shrihari Haridas : MCP 2.0 Is Landing on July 28 Here's Everything Changing  Read more 
 Yedidya Schwartz : Orchestrating Our Agents SDLC on Temporal: The Hard Parts Nobody Warns You About  Read more 
Repo(s) you may have missed: Takashi Yamaguchi : idc-terraform-framework  Read more 
Video(s) you may have missed Raseena Anwar : This Makes AWS Kiro 10x Smarter|Hooks & Steering Files Explained|Stop Repeating Yourself in AWS Kiro  Watch now 
And now for something a little different... Alvaro Llamojha : Kiro: Ship or Skip  Read more 
Now that I've shared what you may have missed, I'd love to hear what I might have missed. Drop a comment below!