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

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

How the media_system app calls Stable Image Core via boto3 and stores the result in S3.

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

The DailyAIUsage pattern used across the portfolio to prevent runaway Bedrock costs.

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

How the DatabaseSeeder switches between demo posts and AI-generated content based on a base64 environment variable.

How the waes_chat_e app classifies hand-drawn characters using a cached joblib model and a 28×28 canvas pipeline.

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

Key patterns from the Filament 4 PostResource — custom publish actions, RichEditor, and dehydration control.