3/18/2026 at 5:51:13 AM
So this is more of an AWS simulator than a digital twin.Digital twin to me means an additional synchronized representation of a system that I can use to interact with the underlying plant.
I think this sort of thing is still useful. I'd never attempt to build something like this without modern AI tools. This is arguably a good use case assuming you are checking your work against AWS actual.
by bob1029
3/18/2026 at 2:39:43 PM
To me it means a system that I can model things on with enough fidelity I find the results predictive if I go do it for real. Not a control panel, an alternate reality.Actual twins don't occupy the same space time on the same 4D trajectory.
For the sake of the metaphor, both should respond the same way to the same inputs. You can, for instance, run two medical lab tests using two twins in parallel and get interchangeable results.
That said, I imagine when this twin is sufficiently faithful, one could first issue state convergence commands until the digital twin mirrored the real, and then overlay an orchestrator to do things perhaps you're thinking of such as: if digital deploys of config changes work, then the same change is applied to the real.
by Terretta