AWS Community Builders Spotlight: August 17th edition

AWSome Content of the week

• Ashish Kasaudhan : Kiro Crew Under the Hood: A Platform Engineer's Field Guide to AWS's Always-On AI Agent Read more 
• Gerardo Arroyo Arce : I Let AWS Rewrite My DevOps Agent's Prompt: 142 Sessions, +6.2%, and a p-value of 0.38 Read more 

Community Spotlight

What you may have missed on Builder Center:

• Adi Ziv : Maximizing GPU Yield on AWS EKS with MPS and Karpenter Read more 
• Ali Bashir : How to Build a Secure Container Platform on AWS ECS Fargate with Terraform and GitHub Actions Read more 
• Aric Pandya : Rufroot Was a Warning Shot: Hardening MCP-Based AI Agents on AWS Read more 
• Binod Prasad Joshi : Petabyte AI Pipelines: Apache Pig Meets Amazon Bedrock Read more 
• Chidozie Uzoegwu : 0.3% In, 36% Out: Your Fine-Tuned Model Is Copying Your Prompt Examples Read more 
• Daniel Morales : Building Ephemeral GitHub Actions Self-Hosted Runners on AWS Fargate with Webhook-Driven Auto-scaling Read more 
• Dirk Michel : On Behavioural Observability: The Missing Layer for Continuously Improving AI Agents Read more 
• Harsha Mathan : Using the AWS MCP Server from Agent Toolkit for AWS with GitHub Copilot Read more 
• Jorge Tovar : Claude Code Authentication: Subscription, API Key, Amazon Bedrock, and Claude Platform on AWS Read more 
• Jubin Soni : Real-Time Anomaly Detection Pipeline with Kinesis Data Streams and Amazon Bedrock Read more 
• Lewis Sawe : Quantum Computers Can't Break Your Encryption Yet. "Yet" Is the Problem. Read more 
• Pavan Kumar : Amazon EKS Pods Pending? The Hidden Kubernetes Pod Limit and How PriorityClass Helps Read more 
• Pawan Sawalani : Serverless GitLab Runners on AWS Lambda MicroVMs: killing our idle CI cluster Read more 
• Pubudu Jayawardana : Scan user uploaded files using AWS Lambda MicroVM and ClamAV Read more 
• Rajpreet Gill : Building a Voice Cost Advisor on AWS: A FinOps Story (With an AI Plot Twist) Read more 
• Ross Williams : AWS AI League 2026: NYC Summit - A Winning Walkthrough Read more 
• Shintaro Fukatsu : ElastiCache for Valkey Just Became a Durable Data Store. Here's What That Actually Means Read more 
• Sourav Chakraborty : IAM Permission Boundaries + SCPs - The Complete Safety Net Explained Read more 
• Suleiman Abdulkadir : Building a Self-Healing GitOps Platform on AWS EKS (and the bugs that only surface at deploy time) Read more 
• Vidit Shah : From a 247 GB Compressed Kaggle Archive to Training-Ready Knee MRI Data on AWS Read more 
• Yuuki Yamashita : DynamoDB Got Native Vector Search. I Verified It, Day One Read more 

Content you may have missed:

• Abdulsomad Abdulwahab : Building DockGuard AI: An AI Agent for Docker Security with AWS Strands and Amazon Bedrock Read more 
• Alexey Vidanov : You don't need a frontier model to redact PII Read more 
• Carlos Biagolini : Validating Request Bodies in Amazon API Gateway Using JSON Schema Read more 
• Dipayan Das : DynamoDB Now Has Native Vector Search. The Interesting Part Isn't RAG. Read more 
• Durrell Gemuh : Building AI Agents for Cloud Operations with AWS Bedrock Read more 
• John Ajera : PrivateLink Conduit Read more 
• Mhamad El Itawi : Everything Was Working. AWS Wanted $1,665/Month More. Read more 
• Oğulcan Doğan : Guardians of the Vault: Who Really Holds the Keys, Data Protection Read more 
• Pooria Ghaedi : Running AWS Network MCP in Lambda Read more 
• Dr. Rahul Gaikwad : Deploying Multi-Agent OpenAI Systems Across AWS: Direct API or Amazon Bedrock Read more 
• Sarvar Nadaf : I Spent a Day With Kiro Crew. Here's What It Actually Does. Read more 
• Thiago Sagara : SWIFT built a blockchain ledger with Hyperledger Besu: dissecting a supposed architecture and imagining it on AWS Read more
• Toshiaki Yano : Comparing AWS Glue Job's Default Mode and VPC Mode Read more 
• Venkata Pavan Vishnu Rachapudi : AWS Transform via Kiro Power: A Hands-On Walkthrough Read more 

Video(s) you may have missed:

• Amitabh Soni : AWS S3 Event Notification with SNS | Email Alerts on Upload & Delete | Hands-on Tutorial Watch now