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Luc van Donkersgoed
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AWS Serverless Hero & Principal Engineer @ PostNL
AWS Lambda provisioned mode for SQS is here! Same principle as provisioned mode for Kafka, but 20x (!) cheaper - making it a viable solution for high-volume, near-realtime event processing.

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AWS Lambda enhances event processing with provisioned mode for SQS event-source mapping
AWS Lambda now supports provisioned mode for SQS event-source mapping, enabling 3x faster scaling and 16x higher concurrency with dedicated polling resources f...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I've always had a soft spot for network tech, and QUIC is quite nifty. Love seeing native support for QUIC in NLB.

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AWS Network Load Balancer now supports QUIC protocol in passthrough mode
AWS Network Load Balancer now supports QUIC protocol in passthrough mode, enabling low-latency forwarding of mobile traffic while maintaining session stickines...
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November 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
BIG shoutout to @honeycomb.io. I already loved their product for human root cause analysis, but their MCP server is next level shit. I configured it in Cursor, gave a single command, and the agent found and fixed the error in a minute. HUGE timesaver!
November 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Welcome to the AWS Heroes program Dimple, Rola, and Vivek! Hope to see you at Re:Invent!

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Introducing Our Final AWS Heroes of 2025
AWS announces three new AWS Heroes for 2025 who are advancing cloud education, mentoring diverse communities, and pioneering enterprise AI solutions globally.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:10 PM
It's only three weeks until Re:Invent 2025! This means peak season for the AWS News Feed 📈 Do you want to support the best AWS news tracker and get your brand in front of 10s of thousands of highly engaged AWS enthusiasts? I still have Silver sponsor slots available for $500 / month!
November 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Reposted by Luc van Donkersgoed
AWS introduces a new planning tool called AWS Capabilities by Region that helps developers explore, compare, and discover service availability and features across different AWS Regions interactively.
Introducing AWS Capabilities by Region for easier Regional planning and faster global deployments
AWS introduces a new planning tool called AWS Capabilities by Region that helps developers explore, compare, and discover service availability and features across different AWS Regions interactively.
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November 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
AWS just launched "AWS Capabilities by Region" - arguably one of their best named products in years. It interactively shows which services and APIs are available, planned, and NOT planned for a region. A very welcome addition to service transparency!

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Introducing AWS Capabilities by Region for easier Regional planning and faster global deployments
AWS introduces a new planning tool called AWS Capabilities by Region that helps developers explore, compare, and discover service availability and features...
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November 6, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Reposted by Luc van Donkersgoed
Amazon Cognito simplifies M2M authentication pricing by removing the app client price dimension, allowing customers to only pay for successful token requests.
Amazon Cognito removes Machine-to-Machine app client price dimension
Amazon Cognito simplifies M2M authentication pricing by removing the app client price dimension, allowing customers to only pay for successful token requests.
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November 3, 2025 at 7:10 PM
This makes me very happy! The $6 per month per app client is GONE. Immediately. This was a cost control which actively disincentivized good architecture and I'm glad they removed it.

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Amazon Cognito removes Machine-to-Machine app client price dimension
Amazon Cognito simplifies M2M authentication pricing by removing the app client price dimension, allowing customers to only pay for successful token reques...
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November 3, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Holy cow 🐮 The AWS News Feed had more visitors in October 2025 than during Re:Invent 2024! We've also doubled the visitor count year-over-year 😳 The next two months are going to be insane!
October 31, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Big day for AWS releases, which is no surprise with just over one month until Re:Invent 2025.
October 30, 2025 at 10:10 PM
OpenTelemetry is awesome, and AWS knows it. The X-Ray SDKs and Deamon are now deprecated in favor of modern, open standards. I hope to see many more OTel features released this Re:Invent!

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Announcing AWS X-Ray SDKs/Daemon End-of-Support and OpenTelemetry Migration
AWS X-Ray SDKs and Daemon will enter maintenance mode in 2026, transitioning to OpenTelemetry as the primary instrumentation standard for application tracing a...
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October 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
SQS: I now support 1MiB messages! Kinesis: hold my beer (Kinesis now supports 10MiB record sizes)

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Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports 10x larger record sizes
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports record sizes up to 10MiB, allowing customers to publish larger data payloads more efficiently without changing existin...
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October 28, 2025 at 5:56 PM
My conference season is wrapped! I loved speaking in Utrecht, Timisoara, Gothenburg, Manchester and many other places this year. While I won't come to a stage near you anytime soon, I'm happy that the awesome team at AWS Comsum Manchester made the recording available on YouTube. Check it out below!
It’s turtles all the way down – a journey into abstraction and modularity | Luc van Donkersgoed
Modularity might be the single most important concept in software design. But it goes way beyond software: modularity is a key concept in business, organizations, and even people. In this talk we…
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October 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
👀 Lambda now natively supports 1MB async payloads. SQS has supported this since August, good to see it in async Lambda invokes (which are based on SQS) too.

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AWS Lambda increases maximum payload size from 256 KB to 1 MB for asynchronous invocations
AWS Lambda expands its asynchronous invocation payload size from 256 KB to 1 MB, enabling developers to send richer, more complex event data without external s...
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October 24, 2025 at 10:55 PM
NEW on the AWS News Feed: you can now view a chart to see when articles were released. For example, search for IPv6 and see the first chart. Or search for API Gateway, and find out there were hardly any releases in 2021-2023. Go try it out and have some fun!
October 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I would like to thank Virtuability for their continued support of the AWS News Feed ❤️ Virtuability is an AWS consulting partner focused on Governance, Serverless & AI Integration. If you're looking for a partner on your next project, make sure to pay them a visit: buff.ly/wPTLwe2 👀
October 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
If only they had released this a week ago.. I know a certain US company which would have loved to have had this last Monday! 👉 Amazon CloudWatch now offers interactive incident report generation.

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Amazon CloudWatch introduces interactive incident reporting
Amazon CloudWatch now enables automatic, comprehensive incident reporting by generating detailed, interactive reports that capture telemetry data, investigatio...
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October 22, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Pre:Invent is in full swing! I love this feature ❤️ ALBs can now rewrite paths and host headers directly in the load balancer. This allows for much more powerful and flexible load balancing patterns.

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Introducing URL and host header rewrite with AWS Application Load Balancers
AWS Application Load Balancers now support native URL and host header rewrites using regex matching, enabling more sophisticated traffic routing and path trans...
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October 15, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I swear the things AWS manages to squeeze out of their data centers should be classified as black magic. You can now create instant copies of EBS volumes with single-digit millisecond latency. Sounds simple - but this is an amazing feat of engineering.

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Introducing Amazon EBS Volume Clones: Create instant copies of your EBS volumes
Amazon EBS Volume Clones allows users to create instant point-in-time copies of encrypted volumes within the same Availability Zone with a single API call ...
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October 14, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Re:Invent reserved seating opens up today! 10am Eastern, 19:00 Central European. I've got my list of sessions lined up. Want to see where I'm going? Check out this list on the Unofficial (but best) Re:Invent Session Planner reinvent-planner.cloud/sessions/sha... 🚀
October 14, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Reposted by Luc van Donkersgoed
Amazon ElastiCache now supports vector search, enabling customers to efficiently index, search, and update billions of high-dimensional vector embeddings from AI providers with microsecond latency and 99% recall.
Announcing vector search for Amazon ElastiCache
Amazon ElastiCache now supports vector search, enabling customers to efficiently index, search, and update billions of high-dimensional vector embeddings from AI providers with microsecond latency and 99% recall.
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October 13, 2025 at 7:58 PM