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Posts touching aws.
4 posts
- December 8, 2025 5 min
S3 Vectors at re:Invent made me reconsider our entire RAG architecture
2 billion vectors per index at 90% cost reduction. Our pgvector pipeline still makes sense, but the calculus for startups without millisecond latency needs is changing.
- /aws
- /ai-ml
- /architecture
- /financeops
- /learning
- March 17, 2025 4 min
Google's $32B Wiz acquisition and what it signals about security as a first-class infrastructure concern
Google paying $32B for a cloud security startup signals that security is no longer a checkbox but a competitive differentiator, especially in fintech where trust is the product.
- /security
- /aws
- /architecture
- /decision-making
- /blog
- January 6, 2025 5 min
AWS re:Invent announcements that actually matter for a three-person fintech team
Aurora DSQL, S3 Tables, Amazon Nova. re:Invent 2024 dropped a firehose of announcements, but most solve problems we will not have for years. Three that actually changed our roadmap.
- /aws
- /architecture
- /fintech
- /decision-making
- /blog
- June 19, 2024 4 min
The AWS bill that made me rethink everything about infrastructure
Our third month AWS bill was 4x what I projected. The culprit was not compute. It was data transfer, NAT gateway charges, and CloudWatch log ingestion.
- /aws
- /architecture
- /startup-life
- /decision-making
- /experience