AWS Organizations now supports full IAM policy language for service control policies, providing more flexibility and precision in creating sophisticated permissions guardrails across organizational accounts.

Oooh this is nice. Service Control Policies (SCPs) now support the full IAM language, including Allow rules on Resources and Conditions. This will make writing "deny-all-except" SCPs much easier! aws-news.com/article/2025...

This is the first AWS MCP server I see a lot of value in. The CloudTrail MCP Server allows bots and agents to query up do 90 days of management events and up to 10 years of data in CloudTrail Lake. Wondering if I can use this to debug "why am I getting a permission error" use cases! buff.ly/Z1qLsy0

AWS continues its focus on serverless developer experience with LocalStack integration in VS Code! This allows developers to deploy to your local machine, shortening the dev feedback loop. buff.ly/NNI703m

👀 This is new: CDK Refactor! It allows developers to retain physical resources when they are moved across a CDK project, for example when introducing new construct abstractions. Nice! aws-news.com/article/2025...

Oohh two very welcome CloudWatch features! 1⃣ Amazon CloudWatch query alarms now support monitoring metrics individually aws-news.com/article/2025... 2⃣ Amazon CloudWatch now supports querying metrics data up to two weeks old aws-news.com/article/2025... These are both super useful!

I am happy to welcome beSharp as a 4 month (!) Silver sponsor for the AWS News Feed. beSharp is an Italian AWS consultancy firm with decades of experience in design, realization and management of Cloud architectures and services on AWS. Go check them out!

This is my favorite CloudWatch Metric for the AWS News Feed ❤️ The orange line shows the number of digest subscribers, the blue line shows the delta. This chart has always shown a positive trend, but I expect additional growth in the Pre:Invent season. Free dopamine for me!

I am super happy to welcome Honeycomb as a sponsor for the AWS News Feed! I use Honeycomb in the AWS News backend and couldn't be happier with their product. Go give them a visit!

If you haven’t subscribed to the AWS News Blog email notifications yet you’re missing out! These emails are SO good - the perfect way to stay up to date in the (p)re:Invent season! Link in comments.

This small feature is going to help someone avoid a million dollar mistake at some point: you can now color code your AWS accounts, making it easier to distinguish prod from non-prod accounts, for example. aws-news.com/article/2025...

Would you like to receive an 💌 email 💌 as soon as critical AWS News announcements are made? I've got you covered! The AWS News Feed now supports email notifications on custom feeds 🚀 Check out the video below to see how it works!

I am utterly convinced there is no deeper hell in software engineering than formatting emails with HTML.

Thrilled to head back to Manchester for AWS ComSum 2025! As usual for this conference, the line-up is absolutely stellar 😍 I hear tickets are still available, so make sure to check out their site: buff.ly/8vM0Tqm See you there?

Thanks to everyone who amplified my call for sponsors, I am now happy to welcome Virtuability as a gold sponsor on The AWS News Feed ❤️💜 Virtuability is an AWS consultancy based in Ireland. Go check out their services! We remain open for additional sponsorships. Reach out if you're interested!

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The AWS News Feed is currently without funding 😢 Meanwhile development of new features continues, the site's numbers are consistently growing, and with the pre:Invent season about to fire up we expect only more visitors and subscribers in the coming months! Will you become a sponsor? Send me a DM!

Hm. I’m not happy with the free tier change for SSM Automation. They’re discontinuing the old free tier, and suggest the new “free plan” instead. But the old free tier was permanently free, while the free plan is one-off. I hope this strategy won’t be the new norm 😑 aws-news.com/article/2025...

The AWS News Feed has crossed 20k emails sent per month, to about 1900 subscriptions! 🚀🥂Who's going to be number 2000? Maybe you! Subscribe here: aws-news.com?showSubscrib... 💌

The AWS News Feed has a bunch of new filters! You can now select a date range, filter on tags, or specific blogs. For example: all of Jeff Barr's AWS News blogs during Re:Invent 2024! Check it out yourself: buff.ly/1xLGyY7 ✨

Now available on aws-news.com: Article Tags! Filter out the noise - select the tags you’re interested in and turn them into a custom feeds. Subscribe to the custom feed with RSS or (soon!) email, and never miss a new post on your favorite topics 🚀

Amazon SQS now supports payloads up to 1MB! I really like this, it reduces a lot of S3 gymnastics for many use cases. Now do EventBridge! aws-news.com/article/2025...

Reading Drive by Daniel Pink, which argues (among many other things) that monetary rewards stifle creative thinking and stimulate gaming the system. Makes you wonder what Meta's AI lab will look like in a year..

AWS now provides official guidance about running untrusted code in CodeBuild. TL;DR: please just don't, but if you must, understand the risks and take precautions where you can. Good read! aws-news.com/article/2025...

AWS just released DocumentDB Serverless. Pretty cool if you have variable MongoDB workloads. Once again they should have called it auto-scaling though - it's not serverless, as the minimum sizing costs 30$ / month. aws-news.com/article/2025...

Customer asks for a feature while I'm sleeping. I wake up, give Cursor Agents the task, fall back asleep. Wake up again, review and merge. Boom, feature is live before I even got out of bed.

The AWS News Feed is growing so quickly 😳 June 2025 had close to the November 2024 unique users (13k vs. 16.5k) and saw 4.6x YoY growth (2.8k -> 13k)! Can't wait for the (p)re:Invent season to kick off!

✨ NEW ✨ on the AWS News Feed: filtering by blog category! Now you can easily manage all articles by category, such as Compute. And... this is the first step in a larger plan. Soon you will be able to receive email alerts on filters - so you'll know immediately when an announcement is made!

I'm traveling to the US in a few weeks and don't want to carry a company laptop due to *gestures broadly*. But I also need to be able to work on some systems. So I bought an iPad with a keyboard, and I must say that creation with Cursor Agents + editing in GitHub Codespaces works REALLY well!

I did not have a new SQS Queue type on my bingo card, but here we are and they're very cool. SQS Fair Queues automatically balance multiple tenants (identified by their MessageGroupID), filtering out noisy neighbors. Love it when foundational services keep improving! aws-news.com/article/2025...

Even Amazon isn't above live testing in prod every now and then

AI Agent: generates code without tests Me: Please add tests AI Agent: adds tests, one of which fails Me: All tests need to pass AI Agent: I'll help you fix your failing test Me: *my* failing test?! 😡

Remote. Debugging. For. Lambda. This is the biggest change in Lambda since microsecond billing. You can set a breakpoint in VSCode on your machine, execute the function in the cloud, inspect its state, and step through the remote process. This is yuuuge! aws-news.com/article/2025...

I'm happy and proud to welcome TWO new sponsors on aws-news.com! Postman is back is back for a second run, promoting their 90-Day AI Readiness Playbook, and Caylent is here to share how their Caylent Accelerate program migrates your databases up to 3x faster! Go check them out!

Im celebrating my 40th birthday today, and recently marked my 4th year at PostNL. Here's to many more years of building! 🥂

So many AWS releases, it feels like it's summer Re:Invent! I count 30 so far, excluding regional expansions 🤯 Go check them out 👇 aws-news.com?types=news&h...

It's here (in preview)! S3 Vectors offer a lower cost vector storage at the expense of latency. This is GREAT for high-volume background processing. Keep your hot data in a database, cold data in S3, slash your vector storage bill! aws-news.com/article/2025...

Tomorrow, July 16th, is the AWS NY Summit! I've got it on good authority that there will be some awesome announcements, so make sure to keep an eye on aws-news.com and subscribe to the daily email digests!

Amazon Bedrock now supports API keys for authentication. I have mixed feelings about this. Yes, it makes access easier. But it also significantly increases the chance of abuse and shock bills. IAM exists for a reason! aws-news.com/article/2025...

Knowing a bit how the tech works (ex-Serverless Developer Advocate at AWS), this is pretty impressive *as a service* for the number of customers who use DynamoDB.

Amazon DynamoDB now offers multi-Region strong consistency (MRSC), enabling zero Recovery Point Objective and allowing applications to read the latest data from any Region with highest resilience.

DynamoDB Multi-Region Strong Consistency (MRSC) is now generally available. This is a really cool feature, powered by the same super-accurate clock technology which made DSQL possible. aws-news.com/article/2025...

I've been critical of MCP security in the past, but it's getting better. This is a great blog by AWS (who are now on the MCP steering committee) about their approach to authentication. I like how 'remote MCP' is now the default and how they used OAuth automated discovery and dynamic registration ❤️

AWS VPC has increased the default route table capacity from 50 to 500 routes, enabling customers to more flexibly manage network traffic and reduce administrative overhead across their cloud infrastructure.

Nice - you can now put 500 routes in a single route table. Is this the year of all the improvements we've been asking for since 2017? I hope so! buff.ly/teNi1MA

AWS Lambda now natively supports Avro and Protobuf Kafka events with schema registry integration, enabling easier event processing and validation without custom deserialization code.

HOLD UP! You can't just announce native support for Avro and Protobuf in AWS Lambda on a Friday night! aws-news.com/article/2025...

👀 AWS ACM Certificates can now be used anywhere, including outside of AWS. This is the first time private keys are allowed to leave ACM! But at $15 per cert per year ($149 for wildcard certs) I wonder what the added value is over Let's Encrypt.. Anyone? buff.ly/NCQ79Rf

This is very cool: IAM Access Analyzer can now tell you exactly which principles in your organization can access your most sensitive data 🔒 buff.ly/5MdqWqW

AWS IAM now mandates multi-factor authentication (MFA) for root users across all account types, significantly enhancing security and protecting against password-related attacks.