Matt Lewis

This is the third in a series of posts documenting the architecture, implementation, and lessons...

This is the second in a series of posts documenting the architecture, implementation, and lessons...

This is the first in a series of posts documenting the architecture, implementation, and lessons...

Background In November 2019, AWS introduced the concept of Amazon EKS Managed Node Groups....

Argo CD Overview EKS Capabilities was announced at re:Invent 2025. These are...

Overview Earlier this year I passed the AWS Machine Learning Engineer - Associate exam. I...

There have been massive advances in the capabilities and features supported by Amazon Q Developer...

AWS have launched the Amazon Q Developer integration with GitHub. I was keen to try this out, and in...

Introduction A fantastic use case for AI Coding Assistants is upgrading applications to...

Introduction I was lucky to get the opportunity to try out the new "Extended Threat...

Background I have been using the Amazon Q Developer Agent for software development for...

Background Here in the UK, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is the 'technical...

I sat and passed the AWS Certified AI Practitioner exam last week. It’s currently still in beta, but...

Introduction An exciting feature of Amazon Q is the concept of agents that autonomously...

Background Today, many developers find themselves working on multiple projects at the same...

I wrote a blog post last week that looked at two different options for making an outbound voice call...

Background I recently had a requirement to trigger an outbound voice call, and wanted to...

Background In my role working for an AWS consulting partner, I need to keep up to date...

Background Generative AI (or GenAI) is the hottest industry buzzword, and shows no sign of...

Background With little background in block storage, I wanted to challenge myself and learn...

Introduction Amazon QLDB is a fully managed ledger database. A key feature is that each...

Background I recently re-certified the AWS Security Speciality exam. To me, it remains one...

Introduction This is the third in a series of posts looking at some of the core services,...

Introduction This is the second in a series of posts looking at some of the core services,...

AWS strongly recommend splitting different types of workloads as well as your various environments...

Last week, AWS announced the beta release of AWS Lambda Powertools Typescript. This is a suite of...

In previous posts I described how to: Stream data from QLDB to DynamoDB to support single-digit...

Lately I've been involved in reviewing services developed using 'serverless' that had been struggling...

Background When Amazon QLDB was first launched, it only supported AWS owned keys to...

When QLDB was first launched, it provided a set of actions for interacting with the control plane API...