AWS & Cloud

Deep dives into AWS Bedrock, ECS, S3, RDS, and the infrastructure wiring behind these projects.

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Making CMS Images Publicly Readable in S3
13 May 2026 · Matt AWS & Cloud
Making CMS Images Publicly Readable in S3

The specific S3 bucket policy and PublicAccessBlock settings needed to serve a cms-images/ prefix publicly.

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Wiring Laravel to RDS on ECS Fargate
10 May 2026 · Matt AWS & Cloud
Wiring Laravel to RDS on ECS Fargate

How the ECS task definition, RDS security group, and environment variables connect so Laravel can reach its database.

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Tracking Bedrock Costs with the Cost Explorer API
07 May 2026 · Matt AWS & Cloud
Tracking Bedrock Costs with the Cost Explorer API

Syncing daily AWS spend into Django, filtering to RECORD_TYPE=Usage, and surfacing Bedrock costs per service.

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Controlling AWS Infrastructure from a Django View
04 May 2026 · Matt AWS & Cloud
Controlling AWS Infrastructure from a Django View

How the infra_manager module wraps Terraform and boto3 to start/stop RDS and stream logs to the browser.

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Parallel Image Generation with ThreadPoolExecutor and Bedrock
01 May 2026 · Matt AWS & Cloud
Parallel Image Generation with ThreadPoolExecutor and Bedrock

Generating 4 images concurrently — 1 hero + 3 blog type covers — using Python ThreadPoolExecutor and Stable Image Core.

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Generating Website Content with Amazon Nova Lite
28 Apr 2026 · Matt AWS & Cloud
Generating Website Content with Amazon Nova Lite

How the CMS manager uses Nova Lite on Bedrock to generate hero copy, about text, and blog posts in one API call.

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