🦸 Community Superhero

Our community superhero this week is Kisan Tamang, a brilliant writer and AWS Community builder. Kisan sends out the weekly newsletter The Cloud Handbook that teaches subscribers how to build practically in the cloud. He’s active in the community, regularly sharing sound advice on where your attention needs to be to improve your skills. Thanks for everything you do, Kisan!

💯 Spotlight

I’ve seen a new phrase (for me) thrown around recently: context graphs. Sounds complicated on the surface, but essentially they’re logs of decision-making traces made by AI agents. That’s oversimplified, but gets the core of it. Apparently they’re a “trillion-dollar opportunity” in the near future. Subramanya N posted a fantastic article last week answering the question who captures context graphs and peels back the layers for why it’s not a thing already.

🔥 My Favorite Content

Last week we had a bold prediction that edge computing was going to be the new focus for AI in 2026. This week, we have another article predicting the same thing, this time giving a little bit more of the “what that means technically” piece I was looking for. Daniela Carrascp does a wonderful job in her prediction for rugged industries (industrial, transportation, energy, etc…) needs and what that means going forward. I’m starting to get convinced this is something we should start paying attention to.

On a more pragmatic note, Roger Chi published a detailed article on simple service relationships in EventBridge, which describes how to build your own service maps in event-driven architectures. He goes through important conventions your teams need to adopt to pull it off, and even shows you how to visualize your systems. This reminds me a lot of Event Catalog, which does it all for you (and is free + open source!). This is a critical piece to any production system. Great write up!

Ok hear me out on this one. Our next article came from what I assume is a bot (yes, seriously). The content is definitely written by AI and my internet snooping leads me to believe it’s a relatively new bot. That said, the article “Building a production-grade AI web app in 2026” is pretty good. It doesn’t have the level of detail you’d hope given the title, but it has several tidbits of knowledge you should take away like “Treat AI like an unreliable but powerful subsystem, not a trusted function,"Prompts are code, whether we like it or not,” and “cost control is a feature, not an afterthought.” As we buckle down and start building apps with autonomous AI for real, these are sound pieces of advice to keep in mind.

💡 Tip of the Week

If you wanted to see some real-world use cases for AI on the edge, Eduardo Ordax shared a video last week that beautifully demonstrates how local computer vision can be used in warehouses.

🐣 New Releases

Reminder, all releases from AWS can be found on AWS News by Luc van Donkersgoed. Below are my favorite from last week.

AWS opened the European Sovereign Cloud last week. It was first announced back in 2023, but is finally generally available.

v0 by Vercel now uses Aurora PostreSQL, Aurora DSQL, or DynamoDB. Just ask in the chat prompt!

Lambda now supports cross-account access for DynamoDB Streams event-source mappings, opening up a whole new level of connectivity.

Last Words

That’s my take on the week, but what’s yours?

What did I miss? What made you nod along (or 🙄)? Hit reply if you’re reading the email. Prefer socials? Ping me on Twitter, LinkedIn, or email.

Happy coding!

Allen