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Last updated October 31, 2026
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An assessment request is a message to us. Until we agree a scope and do the work, we have not reviewed your app. A conversation, a checklist, or a page on this site does not mean an application is safe to launch, compliant with a law or a contract, or free of defects.
The free checklist, The Launch-Ready Security Checklist, is a set of checks you can run yourself. It is not a completed review of your app, and it does not certify anything.
These cases describe specific events and research findings. They do not establish that every AI-built app is vulnerable, that a named platform is currently unsafe, or that moving to AWS would have prevented the issue. Each story on Real-world lessons is our summary of a linked source. It is not an audit of the platforms named there, and it is not advice that those platforms are currently unsafe.
The build vs. buy calculator uses numbers you enter. This is not a security review, AWS assessment or quote. It is not a prediction of profit or a recommendation to build or to buy.
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