James Hood
@jameshood.dev
Husband, Father, Principal Engineer @ AWS,
AWS CloudFormation (previously: AWS SAM/SAR, Amazon Fulfillment, AWS MTurk), Blogger, Coder, Hockey fan 🏒🥅
AWS CloudFormation (previously: AWS SAM/SAR, Amazon Fulfillment, AWS MTurk), Blogger, Coder, Hockey fan 🏒🥅
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James Hood
@jameshood.dev
· Oct 14
Are you curious how Amazon's internal teams are leveraging #AI assistants to accelerate their development cycles? 🤔 Join our code talk "DEV403 | How Amazon Teams Use AI Assistants to Accelerate Development" at #AWSreInvent #AWS #DeveloperTools #generativeAI registration.awsevents.com/flow/awseven...
Are you curious how Amazon's internal teams are leveraging #AI assistants to accelerate their development cycles? 🤔 Join our code talk "DEV403 | How Amazon Teams Use AI Assistants to Accelerate Development" at #AWSreInvent #AWS #DeveloperTools #generativeAI registration.awsevents.com/flow/awseven...
October 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Are you curious how Amazon's internal teams are leveraging #AI assistants to accelerate their development cycles? 🤔 Join our code talk "DEV403 | How Amazon Teams Use AI Assistants to Accelerate Development" at #AWSreInvent #AWS #DeveloperTools #generativeAI registration.awsevents.com/flow/awseven...
3 years ago today. Thinking of you my friend. 💔 #ineedtherapy jlhood.com/i-need-thera...
I Need Therapy (and you do too!)
Trigger warning: This post contains content about suicide.
jlhood.com
March 15, 2025 at 5:41 PM
3 years ago today. Thinking of you my friend. 💔 #ineedtherapy jlhood.com/i-need-thera...
2024 was a big year for #AWS #CloudFormation. Check out this blog post to see a recap of what we launched! 🚀 Even more excited about what we have planned for 2025! 😄 aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops...
AWS CloudFormation: 2024 Year in Review | Amazon Web Services
AWS CloudFormation: 2024 Year in Review AWS CloudFormation enables you to model and provision your cloud application infrastructure as code-base templates. Whether you prefer writing templates directl...
aws.amazon.com
February 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
2024 was a big year for #AWS #CloudFormation. Check out this blog post to see a recap of what we launched! 🚀 Even more excited about what we have planned for 2025! 😄 aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops...
February 13, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Reshape your AWS CloudFormation stacks seamlessly with stack refactoring
AWS CloudFormation introduces a new capability called stack refactoring that makes it easy to reorganize cloud resources across your CloudFormation stacks. Stack refactoring enables...
#AWS #AwsGovcloudUs #AwsCloudformation
AWS CloudFormation introduces a new capability called stack refactoring that makes it easy to reorganize cloud resources across your CloudFormation stacks. Stack refactoring enables...
#AWS #AwsGovcloudUs #AwsCloudformation
Reshape your AWS CloudFormation stacks seamlessly with stack refactoring
AWS CloudFormation introduces a new capability called stack refactoring that makes it easy to reorganize cloud resources across your CloudFormation stacks. Stack refactoring enables you to move resources from one stack to another, split monolithic stacks into smaller components, and rename the logical name of resources within a stack. This enables you to adapt your stacks to meet architectural patterns, operational needs, or business requirements.
As your workloads scale and requirements evolve, re-architecting resources into a new stack structure can become necessary. For example, you may need to split a monolithic stack for easier resource lifecycle management or rename resource logical IDs to align with new naming conventions. Previously, refactoring a stack required multiple manual steps, such as updating templates to retain targeted resources, removing them from current stacks, and then importing them into new stacks. Stack refactoring improves the speed and safety of this process. To refactor a stack, you first provide the CloudFormation templates that reflect the desired stack structure. Then, you generate a preview of the refactor operation, allowing you to confirm that the refactoring changes align with your requirements. If the planned changes meet your expectations, you can execute the refactor operation through an atomic workflow. This new capability enables seamless and continuous adaptation to evolving architectural patterns.
Stack refactor is available in all AWS Regions where CloudFormation is supported. To get started, update your CloudFormation templates to reflect the desired stack structure, then use the AWS CLI or SDK to perform the refactor operation. Visit our https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/introducing-aws-cloudformation-stack-refactoring/ to learn more about this feature.
aws.amazon.com
February 7, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Reshape your AWS CloudFormation stacks seamlessly with stack refactoring
AWS CloudFormation introduces a new capability called stack refactoring that makes it easy to reorganize cloud resources across your CloudFormation stacks. Stack refactoring enables...
#AWS #AwsGovcloudUs #AwsCloudformation
AWS CloudFormation introduces a new capability called stack refactoring that makes it easy to reorganize cloud resources across your CloudFormation stacks. Stack refactoring enables...
#AWS #AwsGovcloudUs #AwsCloudformation
#AWS #CloudFormation now supports stack refactoring! Super excited about this launch!! 🚀 aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...
Reshape your AWS CloudFormation stacks seamlessly with stack refactoring - AWS
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Reshape your AWS CloudFormation stacks seamlessly with stack refactoring
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February 6, 2025 at 11:23 PM
#AWS #CloudFormation now supports stack refactoring! Super excited about this launch!! 🚀 aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...
Fun!
February 3, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Fun!
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The entire tech industry right now
January 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The entire tech industry right now
Not against police procedurals, but I was expecting a whole different kind of “thriller” from an Amazon Prime original series called On Call… 📟 www.imdb.com/title/tt1458...
On Call (TV Series 2025– ) | Action, Crime, Drama
On Call: Created by Tim Walsh, Elliot Wolf. With Troian Bellisario, Brandon Larracuente, Eriq La Salle, Rich Ting. Follows a pair of police officers on patrol as they respond to a new radio call, arri...
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January 9, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Not against police procedurals, but I was expecting a whole different kind of “thriller” from an Amazon Prime original series called On Call… 📟 www.imdb.com/title/tt1458...
Reposted by James Hood
Wrote a short blog post on how goodput can degrade ↘️ as offered load to our system increases ↗️ www.efekarakus.com/2025/01/08/g...
Goodput degradation in rate-limited systems
In this post, we’ll explore how “goodput” (the rate of useful, successful work completed) degrades under increasing load, particularly in multi-step workflows that depend on rate-limited services.
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January 9, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Wrote a short blog post on how goodput can degrade ↘️ as offered load to our system increases ↗️ www.efekarakus.com/2025/01/08/g...
Reposted by James Hood
As the new OSS Developer Advocate for AWS CDK, I was hired to help evolve the way AWS engages with the CDK community.
Today, we're proposing to form a CDK Contributor Council as a first step in that evolution.
github.com/aws/aws-cdk-...
Today, we're proposing to form a CDK Contributor Council as a first step in that evolution.
github.com/aws/aws-cdk-...
RFC 676: Contributor-Council-Charter.md by haubles · Pull Request #679 · aws/aws-cdk-rfcs
This is a request for comments about the proposed AWS CDK Contributor Council. See Tracking Issue #676 for discussion of the proposal.
By submitting this pull request, I confirm that my contributi...
github.com
January 2, 2025 at 9:45 PM
As the new OSS Developer Advocate for AWS CDK, I was hired to help evolve the way AWS engages with the CDK community.
Today, we're proposing to form a CDK Contributor Council as a first step in that evolution.
github.com/aws/aws-cdk-...
Today, we're proposing to form a CDK Contributor Council as a first step in that evolution.
github.com/aws/aws-cdk-...
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Something to remember
December 31, 2024 at 2:24 AM
Something to remember
Reposted by James Hood
One of the most reliable ways to improve our mental health is to help others.
After being randomly assigned to do just 3 acts of kindness a week, people felt significantly less depressed, anxious, and lonely.
Lifting others up elevates us too. Giving shows us that we matter.
After being randomly assigned to do just 3 acts of kindness a week, people felt significantly less depressed, anxious, and lonely.
Lifting others up elevates us too. Giving shows us that we matter.
December 24, 2024 at 5:07 PM
One of the most reliable ways to improve our mental health is to help others.
After being randomly assigned to do just 3 acts of kindness a week, people felt significantly less depressed, anxious, and lonely.
Lifting others up elevates us too. Giving shows us that we matter.
After being randomly assigned to do just 3 acts of kindness a week, people felt significantly less depressed, anxious, and lonely.
Lifting others up elevates us too. Giving shows us that we matter.
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Excellent piece on Amazon Aurora DSQL from @ryan-sb.bsky.social. A take that is nuanced and introspective on DSQL’s place in the AWS ecosystem. rsb.io/posts/re-exp...
Re:Explaining DSQL
rsb.io
December 23, 2024 at 9:47 PM
Excellent piece on Amazon Aurora DSQL from @ryan-sb.bsky.social. A take that is nuanced and introspective on DSQL’s place in the AWS ecosystem. rsb.io/posts/re-exp...
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Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
CloudFormation product owner: PENDING
CloudFormation product owner: PENDING
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Paleontologist: From the perspective of geologic time, there is no gap.
Paleontologist: From the perspective of geologic time, there is no gap.
December 21, 2024 at 7:32 PM
😝🤣
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The most valuable thing you can do for your career is to be thoughtful about how you spend your time. One of the tools I use most to do that, Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec's principal roles framework, is now available outside Amazon for the first time.
December 19, 2024 at 6:28 PM
The most valuable thing you can do for your career is to be thoughtful about how you spend your time. One of the tools I use most to do that, Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec's principal roles framework, is now available outside Amazon for the first time.
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After 20 years as lead blogger on the #AWS News Blog, I am going to return to my builder roots and spend more time with fewer AWS services. Here's my announcement:
And that's a wrap! - aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/an...
And that's a wrap! - aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/an...
And that’s a wrap! | Amazon Web Services
After 20 years, and 3283 posts adding up to 1,577,106 words I am wrapping up my time as the lead blogger on the AWS News Blog. It has been a privilege to be able to “live in the future” and to get to ...
aws.amazon.com
December 16, 2024 at 6:00 PM
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Reposted by James Hood
Missed #reInvent 2024? No worries! The unofficial planner is now updated with session slides and video recordings. 📅✨ Rewatch your favorites or discover new ones based on topic, level, or interest anytime, anywhere. Happy learning and happy holidays! 🎄🎉
reinvent-planner.cloud/sessions
reinvent-planner.cloud/sessions
December 15, 2024 at 6:31 PM
Missed #reInvent 2024? No worries! The unofficial planner is now updated with session slides and video recordings. 📅✨ Rewatch your favorites or discover new ones based on topic, level, or interest anytime, anywhere. Happy learning and happy holidays! 🎄🎉
reinvent-planner.cloud/sessions
reinvent-planner.cloud/sessions
I can picture the pitch for this: “Think body horror… but fun!” youtu.be/mio3sJ_GJoc?...
Drench Cubehead - Seriously Mixed Up Cube head
YouTube video by Drench Juicy Spring Water
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December 13, 2024 at 11:48 PM
I can picture the pitch for this: “Think body horror… but fun!” youtu.be/mio3sJ_GJoc?...
Reposted by James Hood
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December 11, 2024 at 3:04 AM
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ICYMI: Check out the #AWS Infrastructure as code year in review talk we gave at #awsreinvent. We covered notable 2024 launches and got into details on how we achieved up to 40% improvement on #CloudFormation stack creation times. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpso...
AWS re:Invent 2024 - AWS infrastructure as code: A year in review (DOP201)
YouTube video by AWS Events
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December 10, 2024 at 1:00 AM
ICYMI: Check out the #AWS Infrastructure as code year in review talk we gave at #awsreinvent. We covered notable 2024 launches and got into details on how we achieved up to 40% improvement on #CloudFormation stack creation times. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpso...
With another #awsreinvent in the books, we’re solidifying plans for 2025. Send me your top #AWS #CloudFormation pain points! #feedback 🙏
December 7, 2024 at 5:38 AM
With another #awsreinvent in the books, we’re solidifying plans for 2025. Send me your top #AWS #CloudFormation pain points! #feedback 🙏
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Thank you @werner.social for the great shout out to the AWS Heroes ❤️ This is the smartest, friendliest, and simply *best* group of people I've ever been part of, and I am forever grateful for AWS' sponsorship 🙏
December 5, 2024 at 6:29 PM
Thank you @werner.social for the great shout out to the AWS Heroes ❤️ This is the smartest, friendliest, and simply *best* group of people I've ever been part of, and I am forever grateful for AWS' sponsorship 🙏