Mactores POV · Written by forward-deployed engineers

AWS modernization and AI agents, written from production.

Guides, architecture patterns and cost analysis from an agent-native AWS modernization firm — data platforms moved onto S3 and Iceberg, Oracle and SQL Server retired on Aurora, AI agents running against real operations. Every piece comes out of a program that shipped. No vendor framework. No prophecy. No hedging.

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Latest AWS modernization and AI agent guides

Newest first, across data platform modernization, application and database modernization, and AI agents for apps.

AI Agents

Forward-Deployed Engineer: What They Do and When to Hire

Key takeaways A forward-deployed engineer (FDE) is an engineer who works directly inside a customer’s environment to solve real production problems, write and deploy code, and rema…

Ammar Nizami 18 min read
AI Agents

Enterprise AI Strategy: The Three-Pillar Framework

Key takeaways Three pillars divide the work by responsibility: the evidence layer (what systems may read), the action layer (what they may change), and the execution layer (what de…

Ammar Nizami 18 min read
AI Agents

Amazon Bedrock in Production: What Decides If Agents Ship

Key takeaways Four model properties set the cost curve: tool-calling reliability, output token verbosity, p95 latency across chained calls, and instruction adherence as the context…

Ammar Nizami 19 min read

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Reading about it is the cheap part.

Every guide on this page came out of a program that reached production. If one of them describes the problem on your roadmap, the next step is a conversation with the engineers who shipped it — not a discovery deck.

Fixed date. Fixed fee.

Mactores absorbs overage cost on delays inside our control. The clause is standard in our SOW.

Forward-deployed engineers.

Every FDE has shipped production agentic AI on AWS. They own architecture, judgment and cutover.

Weeks, not quarters.

Aedeon, the agent platform we deploy, absorbs the discovery and validation work that used to run long.