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Retail infrastructure has a specific shape: ~90% of the year sits idle, then peak week hits the P&L. July 2026 refresh — core services, Valkey/cache, SES, PCI scope, peak checklist.
Loyalty, pricing, inventory sync, multi-CDN — retail breaks generic templates. July 2026: buy-vs-build matrix, EventBridge patterns, CloudFront case study (−40% page load).
July 2026: AWS Backup plans, Vault Lock, logically air-gapped vaults, cross-account copies, and restore-test cadence — the RPO/RTO discipline that turns “we have backups” into “we restored last week.”
Kiro is not Amazon Q with a new name. It's a spec-driven agentic IDE built for autonomous multi-file code generation. Enterprise guide to adoption and governance.
July 2026: Route 53 hosted zones, latency/geo/failover routing, health checks, and when DNS TTL is not enough — Route 53 Application Recovery Controller for controlled multi-Region cutover.
Well-Architected reviews used to read like AWS sales decks. The 2026 version is sharper. The 6 pillars walked through with what each costs, what each covers, and how to apply them to a workload before AWS's solutions architects do it for you.
A VPC misdesign at month two becomes a multi-quarter migration at year two. CIDR planning, subnet strategies, NAT gateways, VPC endpoints, Transit Gateway, and the network architecture patterns that scale without forcing a re-IP.
July 2026: CloudFront (750+ POPs, Origin Shield, Functions vs Lambda@Edge) vs Cloudflare (proxy + unmetered egress) — decide with a worksheet, not a stale POP count slide.
July 2026 decision guide: monolith → modular monolith → microservices on AWS — team size, platform tax (VPC Lattice/mesh), and a checklist before you split for the org chart.
Three API types, three pricing models, three authentication patterns — and the wrong choice baked into your URL design for years. A decision guide for picking REST vs HTTP vs WebSocket APIs, with the throttling and caching configs that decide your monthly bill.
Redis is fast — until your application retries on every cache miss and the Redis bill starts looking like the database bill. ElastiCache patterns, data structures, cluster modes, eviction policies, and the production patterns that actually reduce database load.
July 2026: Cognito user pools for SaaS — managed login vs classic hosted UI, pool vs silo tenancy, federation limits, and a checklist before you outgrow Cognito into Auth0/Okta.