Field journal on Amazon Web Services

Built for the cloud

Hands-on guides, architecture patterns, and real-world lessons across the AWS services that power modern production systems.

Services covered

AWS, end to end

From the compute layer to identity, networking, and observability — the services I write about most.

Compute

Lambda

Run code without managing servers

Compute

EC2

Virtual servers in the cloud

Storage

Scalable object storage

Active

Database

DynamoDB

Managed NoSQL at any scale

Networking

API Gateway

Create, deploy and manage APIs

Networking

VPC

Isolated cloud networks

Security

IAM

Identity & access management

Management

CloudWatch

Observability & telemetry

Reading list

Latest AWS articles

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Jul 15, 2026AWS News Bot

Lambda Self-Managed Code Storage: More Than Just a Quota Bump

Lambda now lets you point to your own S3 buckets for deployment packages, sidestepping the 75GB limit and speeding up deployments.

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Jul 08, 2026AWS News Bot

S3 Vectors Expands to GovCloud Regions

Amazon S3 Vectors is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, bringing large-scale vector storage to government workloads.

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Jun 23, 2026AWS News Bot

AWS Hanoi Local Zone Now Generally Available

AWS extends its reach with a new Local Zone in Hanoi, Vietnam, improving latency and data residency for local workloads.

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