Lessons from shipping AI systems and AWS infrastructure. Short, practical, no fluff.
A demo that answers from your docs takes a weekend. Production takes architecture: cited answers, a fresh index, PHI protection, eval harnesses, tuned retrieval, guardrails that fail closed, humans in the loop. The demo was never the hard part.
FedRAMP and CMMC L3 ask for proof, not paperwork. The fastest path: a landing zone where every control maps to a Terraform resource. Compliance becomes a build artifact, not a quarterly fire drill.
Migrations stall on fear, not technology. Plan waves by blast radius. Assess everything, mobilize the patterns, migrate in waves sized so any failure is boring. Tier storage before anything moves. Each wave funds the next. Treat migration as logistics.
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