Tag: AWS
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Amazon Bedrock Pricing Across On-Demand, Provisioned, and Batch (AWS Gen AI Series, Part 6)
The five ways Amazon Bedrock charges for the same model, from on-demand tokens to reserved model units, and the break-even math that tells you which mode your workload actually belongs on.
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Amazon Bedrock vs SageMaker AI, and When to Use Each (AWS Gen AI Series, Part 5)
Bedrock gives you models behind an API; SageMaker AI gives you the whole ML platform. Here is how I decide between them, with the cost math that usually settles it.
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Amazon Nova Models and Where Each One Fits (AWS Gen AI Series, Part 4)
A working tour of Amazon Nova on Bedrock: Micro, Lite, Pro and Premier, the creative and speech models, and what Nova 2 changes. With model IDs, context sizes, real cost math and the inference-profile trap that breaks first calls.
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Amazon Bedrock Model Catalog and Choosing a Model (AWS Gen AI Series, Part 3)
Bedrock ships more than a hundred models across fifteen providers, and the price gap between the cheapest and the priciest is over 400x. Here is how I read the catalog and pick a model without overpaying.
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Amazon Bedrock and the Shared Responsibility Model (AWS Gen AI Series, Part 2)
Bedrock is a managed service, but security is still split between AWS and you. Here is exactly which half is yours, the defaults that catch teams out, and the baseline I deploy before any prompt goes live.
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AWS Generative AI Stack, End to End (AWS Gen AI Series, Part 1)
AWS generative AI is really three layers: Amazon Bedrock for managed models, SageMaker AI to build your own, and Trainium and Inferentia underneath. Here is the whole map, with a real cost example and a first call that works.
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How to Land Your First Cloud Job: Resume, Certs and Interviews (Cloud for Beginners, Part 18)
A practical fresher playbook for getting your first cloud job in 2026: which certification to pick, how to build a resume project, and how to answer the interview questions that actually decide the offer.
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How to Build Cloud Skills for Free: Free Tiers and Labs (Cloud for Beginners, Part 17)
Learn real cloud skills for free in 2026 with the AWS, Azure and Google Cloud free tiers and free labs, and set up the budget alerts that keep you from a surprise bill.
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Public, Private, Hybrid and Multicloud Explained (Cloud for Beginners, Part 16)
Public, private, hybrid and multicloud explained in plain English for freshers, with a real egress cost example and the interview question that always comes up.
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Cloud Reliability, Backups and Disaster Recovery Explained (Cloud for Beginners, Part 15)
Reliability is a number, not a feeling. A plain-English guide to redundancy, backups, RTO and RPO, and the four disaster recovery strategies on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.
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Cloud Security Basics Explained for Beginners (Cloud for Beginners, Part 14)
Cloud security is mostly your half of a shared job: turn on MFA, give least access, encrypt data, and know which settings are yours. A plain-English guide for freshers.
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How Cloud Billing Works (and How Bills Explode) (Cloud for Beginners, Part 13)
Cloud bills explode from quiet meters, not the obvious server. Here is how cloud billing really works, the charges that ambush freshers, and a real bill broken down line by line.
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Dr Pranay Jha
Dr. Pranay Jha is a Cloud and AI Consultant with 18+ years of experience in hybrid cloud, virtualization, and enterprise infrastructure transformation. He specializes in VMware technologies, multi-cloud strategy, and Generative AI solutions. He holds a PhD in Computer Applications with research focused on Cloud and AI, has published multiple research papers, and has been a VMware vExpert since 2016 and a VMUG Community Leader.
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