Designing a Production-Ready Just-In-Time IAM Platform for AWS
 
https://knowledge.businesscompassllc.com/designing-a-production-ready-just-in-time-iam-platform-for-aws/
 
Permanent AWS permissions are a security liability. If your team is still handing out standing access to production environments, you’re carrying risk that doesn’t need to exist. A Just-In-Time IAM AWS platform fixes that by giving engineers exactly the access they need, exactly when they need it, and nothing more.

Deep Dive into Amazon EC2: Architecture, Networking, and Scaling
 
https://knowledge.businesscompassllc.com/deep-dive-into-amazon-ec2-architecture-networking-and-scaling/
 
If you’re building on AWS and want to stop guessing about EC2 and start making smarter decisions, you’re in the right place.

Serverless Video Transcoding and Branding with AWS Lambda and FFmpeg
 
https://knowledge.businesscompassllc.com/serverless-video-transcoding-and-branding-with-aws-lambda-and-ffmpeg/
 
If you’re processing videos manually or running a dedicated server 24/7 just to handle encoding jobs, you’re leaving money and time on the table. Serverless video transcoding with AWS Lambda and FFmpeg gives you a faster, cheaper way to handle video processing at any scale — without babysitting infrastructure.

Architecting High-Performance MySQL Exports to Amazon S3 on AWS
 
https://knowledge.businesscompassllc.com/architecting-high-performance-mysql-exports-to-amazon-s3-on-aws/
 
If you’re managing large-scale data pipelines on AWS, you already know that moving MySQL data to Amazon S3 sounds simple until it isn’t. Exports stall, write speeds tank, and suddenly a routine data transfer becomes a Friday night incident.

Amazon Redshift Performance Tuning with System Tables and System Views
 
https://knowledge.businesscompassllc.com/amazon-redshift-performance-tuning-with-system-tables-and-system-views/
 
If your Amazon Redshift queries are crawling and you’re not sure where to start, you’re in the right place. This podcast is for data engineers, analytics engineers, and DBAs who already work with Redshift and want to go beyond the basics to actually fix performance problems — not just throw more compute at them.

AI Database Access Using MCP: Architecture, Security, and Best Practices
 
https://knowledge.businesscompassllc.com/ai-database-access-using-mcp-architecture-security-and-best-practices/
 
AI systems that can query and manage databases directly sound powerful — and they are. But without the right setup, they can also become a serious liability. That’s where the Model Context Protocol (MCP) comes in, giving AI models a structured, controlled way to interact with your data.

Automating Infrastructure Compliance with Terraform Drift Detection on AWS
 
https://knowledge.businesscompassllc.com/automating-infrastructure-compliance-with-terraform-drift-detection-on-aws/
 
If you manage AWS infrastructure at any real scale, you already know the problem. Someone tweaks a security group directly in the console, a resource gets resized outside of Terraform, and suddenly your actual infrastructure no longer matches what your code says it should. That gap is called infrastructure drift — and left unchecked, it quietly becomes a compliance nightmare.

Amazon EKS Upgrade Playbook: Draining Nodes, Rolling Deployments, and Validation
 
https://knowledge.businesscompassllc.com/amazon-eks-upgrade-playbook-draining-nodes-rolling-deployments-and-validation/
 
Upgrading an Amazon EKS cluster sounds straightforward until you’re mid-process and a production pod crashes because you skipped a step. This Amazon EKS upgrade guide is built for DevOps engineers, platform teams, and SREs who need a clear, repeatable path through the Kubernetes cluster upgrade process — without guessing what comes next.

Accelerating AWS Infrastructure as Code with Kiro
 
https://knowledge.businesscompassllc.com/accelerating-aws-infrastructure-as-code-with-kiro/
 
If you’re a DevOps engineer, cloud architect, or platform team lead who spends too much time wrestling with CloudFormation templates or hunting down Terraform misconfigurations, this one’s for you.

Deploying AWS Static Websites with Terraform, S3, CloudFront, and Backend State
 
https://knowledge.businesscompassllc.com/deploying-aws-static-websites-with-terraform-s3-cloudfront-and-backend-state/
 
If you’ve ever manually clicked through the AWS console to host a static site, you already know how quickly that setup becomes a headache to reproduce or scale. This podcast walks you through deploying an AWS static website with Terraform using S3 for hosting and CloudFront as your CDN — all managed as infrastructure as code.