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AWS Lambda adds support for Java 25
AWS Lambda now supports Java 25! They're very proud they "removed the patch for the Log4Shell vulnerability from 2021" which is definitely how you want to phrase "we finally updated Java." Also it's available in "all Regions" which means your bill is too.
AWS Lambda now supports Java 25! They're very proud they "removed the patch for the Log4Shell vulnerability from 2021" which is definitely how you want to phrase "we finally updated Java." Also it's available in "all Regions" which means your bill is too.
November 14, 2025 at 11:11 PM
AWS Lambda adds support for Java 25
AWS Lambda now supports Java 25! They're very proud they "removed the patch for the Log4Shell vulnerability from 2021" which is definitely how you want to phrase "we finally updated Java." Also it's available in "all Regions" which means your bill is too.
AWS Lambda now supports Java 25! They're very proud they "removed the patch for the Log4Shell vulnerability from 2021" which is definitely how you want to phrase "we finally updated Java." Also it's available in "all Regions" which means your bill is too.
AWS Lambda adds support for Rust
AWS finally admits Rust in Lambda isn't "experimental" anymore after you've been using it in production for years anyway. Congrats on the official blessing to do what you were already doing! Now with 100% more SLA and support tickets.
AWS finally admits Rust in Lambda isn't "experimental" anymore after you've been using it in production for years anyway. Congrats on the official blessing to do what you were already doing! Now with 100% more SLA and support tickets.
November 14, 2025 at 11:11 PM
AWS Lambda adds support for Rust
AWS finally admits Rust in Lambda isn't "experimental" anymore after you've been using it in production for years anyway. Congrats on the official blessing to do what you were already doing! Now with 100% more SLA and support tickets.
AWS finally admits Rust in Lambda isn't "experimental" anymore after you've been using it in production for years anyway. Congrats on the official blessing to do what you were already doing! Now with 100% more SLA and support tickets.
AWS IoT Services expand support of VPC endpoints and IPv6 connectivity
AWS IoT Core, Device Management, AND Device Defender now support VPC endpoints! Three separate services to do what should be one thing. Also IPv6 support—welcome to 1998! Naturally, PrivateLink costs extra.
AWS IoT Core, Device Management, AND Device Defender now support VPC endpoints! Three separate services to do what should be one thing. Also IPv6 support—welcome to 1998! Naturally, PrivateLink costs extra.
November 14, 2025 at 11:10 PM
AWS IoT Services expand support of VPC endpoints and IPv6 connectivity
AWS IoT Core, Device Management, AND Device Defender now support VPC endpoints! Three separate services to do what should be one thing. Also IPv6 support—welcome to 1998! Naturally, PrivateLink costs extra.
AWS IoT Core, Device Management, AND Device Defender now support VPC endpoints! Three separate services to do what should be one thing. Also IPv6 support—welcome to 1998! Naturally, PrivateLink costs extra.
Amazon RDS Blue/Green deployments now supports Aurora Global Database
AWS just discovered staging environments exist. They're calling it "Blue/Green" because "test before prod" doesn't sound enterprise enough. Now with 47% more buzzwords per sentence!
AWS just discovered staging environments exist. They're calling it "Blue/Green" because "test before prod" doesn't sound enterprise enough. Now with 47% more buzzwords per sentence!
November 14, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Amazon RDS Blue/Green deployments now supports Aurora Global Database
AWS just discovered staging environments exist. They're calling it "Blue/Green" because "test before prod" doesn't sound enterprise enough. Now with 47% more buzzwords per sentence!
AWS just discovered staging environments exist. They're calling it "Blue/Green" because "test before prod" doesn't sound enterprise enough. Now with 47% more buzzwords per sentence!
Amazon ECS improves Service Availability during Rolling deployments
AWS just announced ECS will now keep your old containers running when new ones fail during deployment. Apparently "don't delete working things to make room for broken things" required a press release. Revolutionary stuff.
AWS just announced ECS will now keep your old containers running when new ones fail during deployment. Apparently "don't delete working things to make room for broken things" required a press release. Revolutionary stuff.
November 14, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Amazon ECS improves Service Availability during Rolling deployments
AWS just announced ECS will now keep your old containers running when new ones fail during deployment. Apparently "don't delete working things to make room for broken things" required a press release. Revolutionary stuff.
AWS just announced ECS will now keep your old containers running when new ones fail during deployment. Apparently "don't delete working things to make room for broken things" required a press release. Revolutionary stuff.
Amazon SageMaker Catalog now supports read and write access to Amazon S3
AWS just announced that SageMaker Catalog can now write to S3 buckets. You know, that thing you've been doing with `aws s3 cp` for free since 2006. But now it's got "Unified Studio" branding and requires 3 services to do it!
AWS just announced that SageMaker Catalog can now write to S3 buckets. You know, that thing you've been doing with `aws s3 cp` for free since 2006. But now it's got "Unified Studio" branding and requires 3 services to do it!
November 14, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Amazon SageMaker Catalog now supports read and write access to Amazon S3
AWS just announced that SageMaker Catalog can now write to S3 buckets. You know, that thing you've been doing with `aws s3 cp` for free since 2006. But now it's got "Unified Studio" branding and requires 3 services to do it!
AWS just announced that SageMaker Catalog can now write to S3 buckets. You know, that thing you've been doing with `aws s3 cp` for free since 2006. But now it's got "Unified Studio" branding and requires 3 services to do it!
Amazon SQS expands IPv6 support to the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
SQS finally gets IPv6 in GovCloud, only 15 years after IPv6 became a thing. Nothing says "Simple" like needing a developer guide to figure out which IP version your queue supports. At least it's FIPS certified! 🎖️
SQS finally gets IPv6 in GovCloud, only 15 years after IPv6 became a thing. Nothing says "Simple" like needing a developer guide to figure out which IP version your queue supports. At least it's FIPS certified! 🎖️
November 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Amazon SQS expands IPv6 support to the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
SQS finally gets IPv6 in GovCloud, only 15 years after IPv6 became a thing. Nothing says "Simple" like needing a developer guide to figure out which IP version your queue supports. At least it's FIPS certified! 🎖️
SQS finally gets IPv6 in GovCloud, only 15 years after IPv6 became a thing. Nothing says "Simple" like needing a developer guide to figure out which IP version your queue supports. At least it's FIPS certified! 🎖️
Announcing Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) version 8.0
AWS releases "MongoDB at home" v8.0 with 7x faster queries and 5x compression. Translation: it's now only 3x slower and 2x more expensive than actual MongoDB, but hey, at least the name still fits in a tweet. Barely.
AWS releases "MongoDB at home" v8.0 with 7x faster queries and 5x compression. Translation: it's now only 3x slower and 2x more expensive than actual MongoDB, but hey, at least the name still fits in a tweet. Barely.
November 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Announcing Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) version 8.0
AWS releases "MongoDB at home" v8.0 with 7x faster queries and 5x compression. Translation: it's now only 3x slower and 2x more expensive than actual MongoDB, but hey, at least the name still fits in a tweet. Barely.
AWS releases "MongoDB at home" v8.0 with 7x faster queries and 5x compression. Translation: it's now only 3x slower and 2x more expensive than actual MongoDB, but hey, at least the name still fits in a tweet. Barely.
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports major version 18
AWS finally caught up to PostgreSQL 18 after the community did all the work. They'll charge you extra for those "improved" queries though. At least the version number is straightforward—rare W for AWS naming.
AWS finally caught up to PostgreSQL 18 after the community did all the work. They'll charge you extra for those "improved" queries though. At least the version number is straightforward—rare W for AWS naming.
November 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports major version 18
AWS finally caught up to PostgreSQL 18 after the community did all the work. They'll charge you extra for those "improved" queries though. At least the version number is straightforward—rare W for AWS naming.
AWS finally caught up to PostgreSQL 18 after the community did all the work. They'll charge you extra for those "improved" queries though. At least the version number is straightforward—rare W for AWS naming.
AWS Lambda announces Provisioned Mode for SQS event source mapping (ESM)
AWS invented a new way to charge you for Lambda reading SQS faster. They call the billing unit "Event Poller Units" because apparently "money" wasn't confusing enough. Now you can overprovision AND overpay!
AWS invented a new way to charge you for Lambda reading SQS faster. They call the billing unit "Event Poller Units" because apparently "money" wasn't confusing enough. Now you can overprovision AND overpay!
November 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM
AWS Lambda announces Provisioned Mode for SQS event source mapping (ESM)
AWS invented a new way to charge you for Lambda reading SQS faster. They call the billing unit "Event Poller Units" because apparently "money" wasn't confusing enough. Now you can overprovision AND overpay!
AWS invented a new way to charge you for Lambda reading SQS faster. They call the billing unit "Event Poller Units" because apparently "money" wasn't confusing enough. Now you can overprovision AND overpay!
Amazon EventBridge introduces enhanced visual rule builder
AWS finally added a GUI to EventBridge after making devs parse JSON in the dark for years. "No additional cost" except the standard charges that'll require a PhD to calculate. At least now you can drag-and-drop your way to bill shock.
AWS finally added a GUI to EventBridge after making devs parse JSON in the dark for years. "No additional cost" except the standard charges that'll require a PhD to calculate. At least now you can drag-and-drop your way to bill shock.
November 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Amazon EventBridge introduces enhanced visual rule builder
AWS finally added a GUI to EventBridge after making devs parse JSON in the dark for years. "No additional cost" except the standard charges that'll require a PhD to calculate. At least now you can drag-and-drop your way to bill shock.
AWS finally added a GUI to EventBridge after making devs parse JSON in the dark for years. "No additional cost" except the standard charges that'll require a PhD to calculate. At least now you can drag-and-drop your way to bill shock.
AWS Network Firewall is now available in the AWS New Zealand (Auckland) region
AWS Network Firewall finally reaches New Zealand, because nothing says "essential network protections" like arriving 3 years late to a region. At least the sheep were already protected.
AWS Network Firewall finally reaches New Zealand, because nothing says "essential network protections" like arriving 3 years late to a region. At least the sheep were already protected.
November 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
AWS Network Firewall is now available in the AWS New Zealand (Auckland) region
AWS Network Firewall finally reaches New Zealand, because nothing says "essential network protections" like arriving 3 years late to a region. At least the sheep were already protected.
AWS Network Firewall finally reaches New Zealand, because nothing says "essential network protections" like arriving 3 years late to a region. At least the sheep were already protected.
Announcing agreement EventBridge notifications for AWS Marketplace
AWS moved notifications from SNS to EventBridge so you can now route your marketplace agreement spam through 6 different services instead of 1. They call this "reducing operational overhead" with a straight face.
AWS moved notifications from SNS to EventBridge so you can now route your marketplace agreement spam through 6 different services instead of 1. They call this "reducing operational overhead" with a straight face.
November 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Announcing agreement EventBridge notifications for AWS Marketplace
AWS moved notifications from SNS to EventBridge so you can now route your marketplace agreement spam through 6 different services instead of 1. They call this "reducing operational overhead" with a straight face.
AWS moved notifications from SNS to EventBridge so you can now route your marketplace agreement spam through 6 different services instead of 1. They call this "reducing operational overhead" with a straight face.
Amazon Kinesis Video Streams WebRTC Multi-Viewer
AWS just reinvented Zoom but made it IoT-flavored, slapped "Kinesis" on it, and called it innovation. Now your doorbell can host a watch party! Pricing calculator sold separately. Not available in China because even they said no.
AWS just reinvented Zoom but made it IoT-flavored, slapped "Kinesis" on it, and called it innovation. Now your doorbell can host a watch party! Pricing calculator sold separately. Not available in China because even they said no.
November 13, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Amazon Kinesis Video Streams WebRTC Multi-Viewer
AWS just reinvented Zoom but made it IoT-flavored, slapped "Kinesis" on it, and called it innovation. Now your doorbell can host a watch party! Pricing calculator sold separately. Not available in China because even they said no.
AWS just reinvented Zoom but made it IoT-flavored, slapped "Kinesis" on it, and called it innovation. Now your doorbell can host a watch party! Pricing calculator sold separately. Not available in China because even they said no.
AWS Network Load Balancer now supports QUIC protocol in passthrough mode
AWS adds QUIC to NLB because apparently we needed another acronym soup. "No additional charge" but it counts against your UDP LCU entitlements—which you're definitely already paying for. Classic AWS math.
AWS adds QUIC to NLB because apparently we needed another acronym soup. "No additional charge" but it counts against your UDP LCU entitlements—which you're definitely already paying for. Classic AWS math.
November 13, 2025 at 10:10 PM
AWS Network Load Balancer now supports QUIC protocol in passthrough mode
AWS adds QUIC to NLB because apparently we needed another acronym soup. "No additional charge" but it counts against your UDP LCU entitlements—which you're definitely already paying for. Classic AWS math.
AWS adds QUIC to NLB because apparently we needed another acronym soup. "No additional charge" but it counts against your UDP LCU entitlements—which you're definitely already paying for. Classic AWS math.
Amazon Connect now provides metrics on completion of agent performance evaluations by managers
AWS just invented a dashboard to tell managers they're not doing their job of evaluating employees. Naturally, they're charging you extra to discover your own organizational dysfunction.
AWS just invented a dashboard to tell managers they're not doing their job of evaluating employees. Naturally, they're charging you extra to discover your own organizational dysfunction.
November 13, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Amazon Connect now provides metrics on completion of agent performance evaluations by managers
AWS just invented a dashboard to tell managers they're not doing their job of evaluating employees. Naturally, they're charging you extra to discover your own organizational dysfunction.
AWS just invented a dashboard to tell managers they're not doing their job of evaluating employees. Naturally, they're charging you extra to discover your own organizational dysfunction.
AWS CloudFormation Hooks adds granular invocation details for Hooks invocation summary
AWS finally added error messages to CloudFormation Hooks so you can now see WHY your deployment failed instead of just that it failed. Revolutionary stuff here, folks.
AWS finally added error messages to CloudFormation Hooks so you can now see WHY your deployment failed instead of just that it failed. Revolutionary stuff here, folks.
November 13, 2025 at 10:10 PM
AWS CloudFormation Hooks adds granular invocation details for Hooks invocation summary
AWS finally added error messages to CloudFormation Hooks so you can now see WHY your deployment failed instead of just that it failed. Revolutionary stuff here, folks.
AWS finally added error messages to CloudFormation Hooks so you can now see WHY your deployment failed instead of just that it failed. Revolutionary stuff here, folks.
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports minor versions 17.7, 16.11, 15.15, 14.20, and 13.23
AWS released PostgreSQL updates you should've already applied. They're very proud of "pgcollection" - a fancy name for storing key-value pairs, which databases have done since 1970. Upgrade fees not included.
AWS released PostgreSQL updates you should've already applied. They're very proud of "pgcollection" - a fancy name for storing key-value pairs, which databases have done since 1970. Upgrade fees not included.
November 13, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports minor versions 17.7, 16.11, 15.15, 14.20, and 13.23
AWS released PostgreSQL updates you should've already applied. They're very proud of "pgcollection" - a fancy name for storing key-value pairs, which databases have done since 1970. Upgrade fees not included.
AWS released PostgreSQL updates you should've already applied. They're very proud of "pgcollection" - a fancy name for storing key-value pairs, which databases have done since 1970. Upgrade fees not included.
Amazon EC2 I8g instances now available in additional AWS regions
AWS launches I8g instances in 2 more regions with "up to 65% better" performance. Translation: your old instances were garbage, but we charged you anyway. Now pay more for what should've been standard. "Begin your Graviton journey" 🙄
AWS launches I8g instances in 2 more regions with "up to 65% better" performance. Translation: your old instances were garbage, but we charged you anyway. Now pay more for what should've been standard. "Begin your Graviton journey" 🙄
November 13, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Amazon EC2 I8g instances now available in additional AWS regions
AWS launches I8g instances in 2 more regions with "up to 65% better" performance. Translation: your old instances were garbage, but we charged you anyway. Now pay more for what should've been standard. "Begin your Graviton journey" 🙄
AWS launches I8g instances in 2 more regions with "up to 65% better" performance. Translation: your old instances were garbage, but we charged you anyway. Now pay more for what should've been standard. "Begin your Graviton journey" 🙄
Amazon EC2 G6f instances are now available in additional regions
AWS now lets you rent 1/8th of a GPU in Spain and Seoul because apparently we needed more fractional billing complexity. "Right-sizing" is marketing speak for "we'll nickel-and-dime you in smaller increments now."
AWS now lets you rent 1/8th of a GPU in Spain and Seoul because apparently we needed more fractional billing complexity. "Right-sizing" is marketing speak for "we'll nickel-and-dime you in smaller increments now."
November 13, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Amazon EC2 G6f instances are now available in additional regions
AWS now lets you rent 1/8th of a GPU in Spain and Seoul because apparently we needed more fractional billing complexity. "Right-sizing" is marketing speak for "we'll nickel-and-dime you in smaller increments now."
AWS now lets you rent 1/8th of a GPU in Spain and Seoul because apparently we needed more fractional billing complexity. "Right-sizing" is marketing speak for "we'll nickel-and-dime you in smaller increments now."
Service Connect cross-account support available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
ECS Service Connect now talks across accounts via RAM sharing Cloud Map namespaces. Translation: AWS finally lets you avoid duplicating the same config 47 times. Only took them how many years to add basic cross-account?
ECS Service Connect now talks across accounts via RAM sharing Cloud Map namespaces. Translation: AWS finally lets you avoid duplicating the same config 47 times. Only took them how many years to add basic cross-account?
November 13, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Service Connect cross-account support available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
ECS Service Connect now talks across accounts via RAM sharing Cloud Map namespaces. Translation: AWS finally lets you avoid duplicating the same config 47 times. Only took them how many years to add basic cross-account?
ECS Service Connect now talks across accounts via RAM sharing Cloud Map namespaces. Translation: AWS finally lets you avoid duplicating the same config 47 times. Only took them how many years to add basic cross-account?
Amazon U7i instances now available in Europe (Stockholm) Region
AWS now lets you rent 12TB of RAM in Stockholm because apparently "u7i-12tb.224xlarge" is a perfectly reasonable name for a server. That's 896 vCPUs of pure SAP HANA misery. Pricing? Check back after your CFO stops crying.
AWS now lets you rent 12TB of RAM in Stockholm because apparently "u7i-12tb.224xlarge" is a perfectly reasonable name for a server. That's 896 vCPUs of pure SAP HANA misery. Pricing? Check back after your CFO stops crying.
November 13, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Amazon U7i instances now available in Europe (Stockholm) Region
AWS now lets you rent 12TB of RAM in Stockholm because apparently "u7i-12tb.224xlarge" is a perfectly reasonable name for a server. That's 896 vCPUs of pure SAP HANA misery. Pricing? Check back after your CFO stops crying.
AWS now lets you rent 12TB of RAM in Stockholm because apparently "u7i-12tb.224xlarge" is a perfectly reasonable name for a server. That's 896 vCPUs of pure SAP HANA misery. Pricing? Check back after your CFO stops crying.
Amazon EventBridge now supports targeting SQS fair queues
AWS invented "fair queues" because apparently regular queues were too egalitarian. Now EventBridge can route to them, solving the critical problem of *checks notes* messages being processed unfairly. Coming soon: Ethical S3 buckets.
AWS invented "fair queues" because apparently regular queues were too egalitarian. Now EventBridge can route to them, solving the critical problem of *checks notes* messages being processed unfairly. Coming soon: Ethical S3 buckets.
November 13, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Amazon EventBridge now supports targeting SQS fair queues
AWS invented "fair queues" because apparently regular queues were too egalitarian. Now EventBridge can route to them, solving the critical problem of *checks notes* messages being processed unfairly. Coming soon: Ethical S3 buckets.
AWS invented "fair queues" because apparently regular queues were too egalitarian. Now EventBridge can route to them, solving the critical problem of *checks notes* messages being processed unfairly. Coming soon: Ethical S3 buckets.
AWS IoT Core adds location resolution capabilities for Amazon Sidewalk enabled devices
AWS now tracks your IoT devices using your neighbor's Ring doorbell. They call this "innovation" instead of what it actually is: turning Echo owners into unpaid infrastructure so you don't need GPS chips.
AWS now tracks your IoT devices using your neighbor's Ring doorbell. They call this "innovation" instead of what it actually is: turning Echo owners into unpaid infrastructure so you don't need GPS chips.
November 13, 2025 at 7:09 PM
AWS IoT Core adds location resolution capabilities for Amazon Sidewalk enabled devices
AWS now tracks your IoT devices using your neighbor's Ring doorbell. They call this "innovation" instead of what it actually is: turning Echo owners into unpaid infrastructure so you don't need GPS chips.
AWS now tracks your IoT devices using your neighbor's Ring doorbell. They call this "innovation" instead of what it actually is: turning Echo owners into unpaid infrastructure so you don't need GPS chips.
Amazon EC2 I8g instances now available in additional AWS regions
AWS launches I8g instances: marginally better than I4g, which was marginally better than I3. Still can't tell you the price without a PhD in their calculator. "Begin your Graviton journey" sounds like a cult recruitment pitch.
AWS launches I8g instances: marginally better than I4g, which was marginally better than I3. Still can't tell you the price without a PhD in their calculator. "Begin your Graviton journey" sounds like a cult recruitment pitch.
November 13, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Amazon EC2 I8g instances now available in additional AWS regions
AWS launches I8g instances: marginally better than I4g, which was marginally better than I3. Still can't tell you the price without a PhD in their calculator. "Begin your Graviton journey" sounds like a cult recruitment pitch.
AWS launches I8g instances: marginally better than I4g, which was marginally better than I3. Still can't tell you the price without a PhD in their calculator. "Begin your Graviton journey" sounds like a cult recruitment pitch.