AWS Community Builders Spotlight: August 3rd edition

Weekly digest of AWS Community Builders' best content from August 3-August 9, 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 12, 2026

Last modified Aug 13, 2026

For this week's CB Spotlight we are going to spread our wings ( Sweet 16! ). It's our chance to fly (Sweet 16!) Discovering (Sweet 16!) So much more to life...Its the CB Spotlight, Sweet 16 🎂
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 two Community Builders for their AWSome content:
 Amrut Pagidipally , for their AWSome piece,  AWS says a production agent is now two API calls. I tested that . 
 Jordi Garcia Castillon , for their AWSome piece,  Beyond AI Agents: Building Persistent, Embodied and Evaluatable Artificial Minds on AWS . 
Congrats to you both!
Community SpotlightWhat you may have missed on Builder Center/AWS: Ashish Kasaudhan : Beyond Spec-Driven Hype: Test-Driven Development with Kiro  Read more 
 Binod Prasad Joshi : Zero-Touch Migration: The Hype vs. What Actually Ships  Read more 
 Fawaz C P : Custom Skills with MCP Servers  Read more 
 George Rolston : From Issue to Merge: A GitHub-Native Coding Agent Powered by Amazon Bedrock  Read more 
 Ghita El Amlaqui : Building a Ready-to-Code Amazon SageMaker Studio Environment with AWS CDK  Read more 
 Hector Zelaya : Cross-Account ECS Deployments with AWS CodePipeline  Read more 
 Jubin Soni : Kiro for AWS Infrastructure: Spec-Driven Terraform and Lambda Development  Read more 
 Katsuhiro Fujimaki : Building CreditCLI with Kiro: from an AWS credit workflow to a safer cross-platform CLI  Read more 
 Khushi Nandwani : Building a Secure Three-Tier Architecture on AWS Read moreLud Silva: Getting started with Amazon S3 Files using ECS Fargate and Terraform  Read more 
 Lud Silva : Getting started with Amazon S3 Files using ECS Fargate and Terraform  Read more 
 Maximilien Charlier : An Introduction to LoRaWAN and AWS IoT Core: How I Monitor My Home Energy Consumption  Read more 
 N Chandra Prakash Reddy  &  Sandeep Kumar P : LamRAG: 800GB, AI, And Lessons From A Project We Couldn't Complete  Read more 
 Paul Santus : Serverless Lazy Generation: generate once, cache forever with CloudFront origin groups (+ S3 and Lambda)  Read more 
 Ryan Cormack : Evaluating AI Agents: A production blueprint with Strands and AgentCore  Read more 
 Sabarish Sathasivan : AWS Lambda Self-Managed S3 Code Storage: `COPY` vs. `REFERENCE`  Read more 
 Shawn Jiang : Crossing Two Non-Transitive AWS Transit Gateway Peerings with an Inspection VPC  Read more 
 Utkarsh Rastogi : Building a Multi-Agent AI for Indian Citizen Services Using LangGraph, Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Base, and S3 Annotations  Read more 
 Yuuki Yamashita : The Day I Let an AI Agent Watch My Kubernetes Cluster (But Not Touch It)  Read more 
 Victor Omolayo : How AWS Lambda Turned Our Biggest Pain Point Into Our Best Feature  Read more 
Content you may have missed: Akira Nishikawa : Detect in the Application, Block at the Edge: A Feedback Loop with AWS WAF and CloudFront KVS  Read more 
 Damien Burks : Build Secure AWS Pipelines with GitHub Actions and OIDC  Read more 
 David Behrooz i: Blocking Requests with Lambda Function URLs  Read more 
 Elizabeth Adeotun Adegbaju : How I Built an AI Agent That Turns My YouTube Tutorials into Dev.to Articles  Read more 
 Hosaka Kouki : Benchmarking AWS Lambda Functions with Side Effects Using AWS Lambda Power Tuning  Read more 
 Javier Sepúlveda : GitOps beyond Git: immutable platform delivery with OCI and Argo CD using EKS Capabilities.  Read more 
 Johannes Geiger : AWS Lambdas, Secrets and Asynchronous Updates  Read more 
 Lars Magelssen : I didn't wanna pay for an app, so I just created my own using AI  Read more 
 Manas Mondal : Building a Security Transformation Dashboard with KIRO: From Manual Reporting to Intelligent Insights  Read more 
 Manato Takai : Access Token Hardening with CloudFront JA4 Fingerprints  Read more 
 Robert Slootjes : Open Serverless v4 is here  Read more 
 Sergio Cambelo : Amazon VPC Lattice: Service-to-Service Connectivity at Layer 7  Read more 
 Shrihari Haridas : I Built an AI Terraform Plan Reviewer and Hit Five Access Gates Getting There  Read more 
 Vinayak Pandey : One Slack Command to Wake Up Your Entire Non-Prod Stack  Read more 
 Xavier Portilla Edo : Rotate AWS Secrets Manager Secrets Without Restarting Your Go Service, with mamori  Read more 
Repo(s) you may have missed: Farah Abdirahman : Amazon Bedrock AgentCore — Kiro Power  Read more 
And now for something a little different... Lars Jacobsson : re:Invent Simulator — Survive a Week in Las Vegas  Play 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!