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Scalable Serverless AI/ML Pipelines: A Production Guide Research Disclaimer: This guide is based on AWS SDK for Python (boto3) v1.34+, SageMaker Python SDK v2.200+, and AWS Step Functions State Language (Amazon States Language) official documentation. All code examples follow AWS Well-Architected Framework for ML workloads and include production-tested patterns for serverless deployment, monitoring, and cost optimization. Serverless ML pipelines eliminate infrastructure management while providing automatic scaling, pay-per-use pricing, and high availability. This guide covers production-ready patterns for deploying ML models using AWS Lambda, SageMaker, Step Functions, and EventBridge, with complete working examples that you can deploy immediately. ...

As a SOC analyst, one of the most critical tasks is analyzing network flow data to identify potential security threats. In this post, we’ll explore how to combine cloud-based data storage, SQL querying, and AI-powered analysis to streamline this process. Collecting Flow Data in Amazon Athena Amazon Athena provides a serverless query service that makes it easy to analyze data directly in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Here’s how we set up our flow data collection: ...

Update (January 2026): The AI landscape has evolved dramatically since this post was written in July 2024. GPT-4, mentioned below, has been succeeded by GPT-5 and GPT-5.2. Claude has advanced to Opus 4.5, and Google released Gemini 3 with a 1-million token context window. The core message of this post - that AI is becoming accessible to everyone - has only accelerated. The tools mentioned (AutoML, no-code platforms) have matured significantly, and new players have entered the market. The democratization trend continues at an even faster pace than predicted. ...

I spent today neck deep in rego so I thought it would be fun to take a break from documenting something technical and instead talk about a funny moment in AI tinkering. Yes, Artificial Intelligence is the latest buzz so it just makes sense to blog about it, right? Also, yes, there’s a minor plug embedded in here for my wife and daughter and their business. I’m a geek. I am not a marketing wiz. If you’ve read my blog so far, you know I have my own version of English. I’m also very horrible at writing product descriptions and things of the sort. I’ve been helping my and wife put together stuff for their handmade soap business, Momma Bears Creations (That’s the shameless plug). ...

In Tinkering With Artificial Intelligence Blog Writing, I talked about tinkering with some various AI engines. Google has just come out with their AI Chatbot, Bard. As you can see from the blog post, Bard has been out for awhile but was only open to internal use. Google recently started providing invites to the public to use Bard. Yesterday, I received my invite to use Bard! My very first thought was to try and use Bard to generate a blog post. While the other AI products I used had specific blog writing tools, Bard is more like ChatGPT. Bard is a chatbot so it was easier to generate my content. ...