Insights & Resources

DORA on AWS since Jan 2025: RoI, TLPT/TIBER-EU, incident clocks, Artifact addendum. July 2026 readiness checklist.

EU AI Act compliance on AWS — risk classification, prohibited practices, GPAI obligations, the high-risk Annex III framework (enforceable 2 August 2026), and the AWS-native control mapping using Bedrock Guardrails, SageMaker Model Cards, and Audit Manager governance.

How to build a vulnerability management program that scales beyond CVE-counting. Inspector v2 deployment, CVSS + CISA KEV + reachability for risk-based prioritization, container and IaC scanning in CI/CD, and remediation SLAs that survive audits.

GDPR compliance on AWS for SaaS companies handling EU resident data. Region selection, the AWS DPA, data subject rights automation, RoPA documentation, breach notification, and the technical controls regulators expect.

ISO 27001:2022 on AWS: ISMS scope, 93 Annex A mapping, Stage 1/2 evidence. July 2026 stage checklist.

NIS2 on AWS: Essential/Important scope, Art. 21 measures, 24h/72h clocks, supply chain. July 2026 checklist.

NIST CSF 2.0 on AWS: Govern + six functions, tiers, 800-53/171/CMMC. July 2026 Tier-3 checklist.

n8n on EKS: queue mode, RDS Postgres, Redis/Valkey, ALB+WAF, IRSA. July 2026 production checklist.

Amazon QuickSight can replace expensive BI tools or become a costly mistake — depending on how you use it. Here is the production guide that covers SPICE, multi-tenancy, cost control, and the cases where QuickSight is the wrong choice.

Virtual data modeling on AWS: Athena/Redshift semantic views without copies. July 2026 — when VDM works, when it burns Athena dollars.

Kinesis Data Streams and Amazon MSK both handle real-time streaming on AWS, but they serve different architectures. Here is how to choose between them for your workload.

Serverless RPUs vs Provisioned RA3 — still not automatic. July 2026 refresh: base 4–1024 RPUs, Max RPU-hours, AI-driven scaling, when RI wins.