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Med Amine Mahmoud
Founder and Editor, Smash The Exam
I build certification prep systems and publish implementation-first cloud engineering guides with production-ready verification steps.
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Published Articles
- Decoding the Price Tag: Estimating Google Gemini AI Costs
- Building a RAG Pipeline with Gemini 2.5 and Vertex AI Vector Search: 95%+ Answer Accuracy for Under $0.002/Query
- Control your Generative AI costs with the Gemini API context caching
- GCP Billing Kill Switch: Automating Gemini AI Cost Controls
- Automating GCP Cost Optimization with GenAI + Vertex AI
- Azure OpenAI Pricing 2025: Real Costs, Calculator and Complete Guide (December Update)
- Prompt Caching in LLMs and Azure AI Foundry - Complete End-to-End Guide
- I Spent INR 12,000 on Azure AI in Two Weeks. The Same Project Cost Less Than $1 on OpenRouter. Here Is What Happened.
- Transforming Azure cost management with AI: From natural language queries to automated insights and actions
- How to Cut Azure AI Costs by 70% While Scaling GPT-5
- Building Efficient AI Agents: Code Execution with MCP and AWS Bedrock
- AI/ML Cost Management: SageMaker and Beyond
- Cost Management in Generative AI with AWS: Practical Insights and Implementation Strategies
- How to Reduce Generative AI Costs on AWS: A Practical Guide
- AWS AI Cost Optimization: SageMaker vs. Bedrock vs. EC2
- Tips&Tricks - A Guide to FinOps on Google Cloud: Unlocking the Secrets of Cost Optimization
- How Companies Actually Cut Google Cloud Costs in 2024-2025
- GCP Cost Optimization Guide for Growing Companies (2025)
- Top 5 Areas Where You Might Be Overspending in GCP
- GCP Cost Optimization: Mastering Compute Engine Savings
- FinOps Cost Optimization in Azure: A Deep Dive Guide
- AKS Cost Optimization Guide: How to Reduce Azure Kubernetes Costs in 2025
- Cost Optimization in Azure: What We Miss in Production
- Azure Cost Optimization: How We Saved 30% Without Slowing Down Innovation
- Azure Cost Optimization Guide: Practical Strategies That Actually Work
- AWS Cost Optimization: The 7-Steps to Keep Bills Predictable
- Cost Optimization on AWS: What We Achieved
- AWS Cost Optimization: The Ultimate Guide - Part 1
- The Ultimate AWS Cost Optimization Checklist for 2025
- AWS Cost Optimization Guide: Practical Strategies That Actually Work
- How to Cut ECS Fargate Costs Aggressively: The “Crazy but Useful†Playbook
- How to Cut EC2 Costs Exponentially: Practical Hacks, Architecture Tips, and Automation Playbook
- IPv6 Cost Hacks for AWS VPC: How to Cut VPC Networking Bills Dramatically
- AWS Pricing, Free Tier, and the $200 Credit Explained: What Beginners and Builders Must Know Before Going Pay-As-You-Go
- What Is AWS? A Deep Guide from Beginner Basics to Real Cloud Architecture
- AWS AI: The Complete Guide to Artificial Intelligence on Amazon Web Services
- AWS Generative AI: From Simple Chatbots to Production-Grade AI Systems
- Azure Platform Operations and AI Playbook (2026): Monitoring, IaC, DevOps, Recovery, Migration, and AI Services
- Azure Identity and Security Architecture Playbook (2026): Entra, RBAC, Managed Identity, Key Vault, PIM, Defender, and Sentinel
- Azure Messaging Architecture Playbook (2026): Service Bus, Event Grid, Event Hubs, and Queue Storage
- Azure Networking and Edge Playbook (2026): Front Door, Application Gateway, Load Balancer, DNS, Traffic Manager, and Private Connectivity
- Azure Analytics Engineering Playbook (2026): Synapse Analytics, Azure Databricks, Data Factory, and Synapse Pipelines
- Azure Data Platform Architecture Playbook (2026): SQL, Cosmos DB, Table Storage, Redis, and PostgreSQL
- Azure Storage Architecture Playbook (2026): Blob, Files, Disks, Data Lake Storage Gen2, and Access Tiers
- Azure Compute Architecture Playbook (2026): Functions, AKS, App Service, Virtual Machines, Batch, and VM Scale Sets
- Top 10 Community GitHub Repositories (Last 30 Days) for AWS + AI + Agentic + Blockchain
- Governing MCP and Agentic AI on AWS: Identity, Permissions, Observability, and Audit at Scale
- SEO in the Agentic Search Era: AWS-Based GEO/SEO Operations for AI Overviews and Copilot Citations
- Blockchain Security Operations with Agentic AI on AWS: Detect, Triage, and Respond
- GraphRAG + Blockchain Provenance on AWS: Relationship-Aware and Tamper-Evident QA
- Verifiable RAG on AWS: Cryptographic Provenance for Retrieval Results
- AWS + Blockchain + AI: Building a Multi-Chain Intelligence Copilot with AMB Query and Bedrock
- Agentic Commerce on AWS: Building AI Agents That Can Transact with x402 and Stablecoins
- AI Security and Guardrails: Attacks, Risks, and Defensive Design
- Prompt Engineering Is Becoming Prompt Operations
- LLM Cost Optimization in Production
- RAG Is Evolving into GraphRAG
- Bedrock vs SageMaker: Choosing the Right AWS AI Platform
- AI Coding Agents with DeepSeek Latest Model API on AWS and FastAPI
- MCP: Model Context Protocol on AWS with a FastAPI Example
- How to Deploy AI Agents in Production on AWS
- AWS DevOps, AI/ML, and Governance Selection Playbook (2026)
- AWS Observability, Governance, and Edge Runtime Playbook (2026)
- AWS Security and Identity Selection Playbook (2026)
- AWS Networking and Connectivity Selection Playbook (2026)
- AWS Messaging and Event Architecture Playbook (2026)
- AWS Analytics and Streaming Selection Playbook (2026)
- AWS Database Platform Selection Playbook (2026)
- AWS Storage and Migration Architecture Playbook (2026)
- AWS Compute Service Selection Playbook (2026)
- Deploying Angular + FastAPI on AWS Fargate: From Zero to Production
- Production Security Hardening: From Score 5 to Battle-Tested
- AWS Cost Optimization: Real Strategies That Cut Our Bill
- Angular 19 SSR Performance: From NG0401 to Sub-100ms TTFB
- Building a Production Monitoring Stack: Alarms, Dashboards, and Incident Response
- Zero-Downtime Deployment Pipelines: ECS Fargate Automation
- SEO for Angular SSR: From 62 Non-Indexed Pages to Full Coverage
- PostgreSQL on ECS Fargate: Idle Management, Migrations, and PgAdmin
- Transactional Email on AWS: From SMTP Failures to Reliable SES Delivery
- Building a Full-Stack Certification Platform: Feature Implementation Journal