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# insights, guides & technical news

monolayer news

## guides

##### May 19, 2026

### Create your monolayer account

#### Account setup

##### June 6, 2025

### Rapid Prototyping and Prompt-to-Cloud, In Your AWS account

#### A practical guide to rapid prototyping that stays on the path to production inside your AWS account

## insights

##### May 19, 2026

### Why we started monolayer

#### By Marc Essindi and Dani Behrendt \| co-founders

##### June 19, 2025

### The SDLC Didn't Break. We Just Never Finished It

#### By Nigel Dixon-Fyle \| GTM & partnerships

##### May 19, 2025

### White Paper: Platform Engineering in the AI era

#### By monolayer

## technical

##### May 19, 2025

### Architecture specs

#### A technical specification for the AWS managed services that monolayer provisions inside the customer AWS account.