Excuse me? Claude Ultraplan? Big Power Rangers vibes.

A few days ago I wrote a blog about semantic search, embeddings, and S3 vector buckets. Today I ran into this beautiful trace which captures the entire process. I just love a well-instrumented distributed system ❤️

Ooh native OTel ingestion support for CloudWatch Metrics 👀 This is both very cool and potentially very expensive for high-cardinality metrics 😬 aws-news.com/article/2026...

New blog post! Introducing semantic search to AWS News - a deep dive into embeddings, vector buckets, and more. lucvandonkersgoed.com/2026/03/31/i...

It's official now - App Runner is out. As is CloudTrail Lake 😢 Check out the full list of service deprecations below 👇 aws-news.com/article/2026...

Lol yeah no lie detected

MAJOR update 🚀 The AWS News Feed now supports Content Search! You can now search for any term and the AWS News Feed will find instantly find any article discussing it. And it's super fast - powered by S3 Vector buckets. Go try it out now! Link in the comments 👇️

Amazon S3 now supports account regional namespaces for general purpose buckets, allowing you to create uniquely named buckets within your account and region with automatic suffix protection and simplified management across multiple AWS Regions.

AWS finally found a way to allow "duplicate" S3 bucket names.. by adding an account / region suffix 😅 aws-news.com/article/2026...

I am immensely happy to welcome local hero Cloudar as a 5-month silver sponsor on The AWS News feed! Go check out their AWS consulting and MSP services. Thanks for your support, Cloudar!

I started exploring Claude Code today. The experience matches what I've read about it 😬

I don't know why, but The AWS News Feed suddenly jumped to almost 30k visitors in Feb '26. That's way more than even during Re:Invent season 😮 At the same time we've crossed over 2500 email subscriptions. Up and to the right baby! 📈

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The AWS News Feed just keeps on growing, so I'm thinking about hiring a professional UI / UX agency to design v2.0 - and I'm looking for *sponsors* for this endeavor. It would be my biggest investment in the platform ever and every Silver, Bronze, and Individual sponsor would help. More info 👇

The service deprecration everyone knew was coming is finally (kinda) here. App Runner will stop accepting new customers on April 1st, and customers should consider ECS Express Mode instead. However.. the announcement blog post was pulled. It's still on AWS News though. Link in the comments.

I built an AI agent which can analyze CloudWatch access logs and use the Honeycomb MCP server to find root causes. It works _extremely_ well and even correctly suggests the fix for any problems found. Next up: triggering a Cursor Agent to implement the fix! 🚀

After a successful trial run I've decided to promote my AI Agents Demystified session into a full conference talk! I've submitted it to a first batch of events, so I hope to be able to present it in a venue near you soon ❤️

First talk of 2026 is in the books! I presented ✨ AI Agents Demystified ✨ at the AWSUG NL Re:Cap in our own PostNL head offices. The audience response was really good so I'm considering sending it in to some conferences. Let me know if this is a good fit for your event ❤️

This was a long time coming, glad it's finally here: SQS, Async Lambda, and EventBridge now support payloads up to 1 MB aws-news.com/article/2026...

I am super happy to welcome AWS itself as a Gold sponsor for the AWS News Feed! Their content and marketing team acknowledges the unique value of the AWS News Feed and we're looking forward to working together more in the months and years to come ❤️

The AWS European Sovereign Cloud (ESC) has launched! aws-news.com/article/2026...

Non-AI topics get 10% of the keynote, but 70% of the attention on the AWS News Feed. Just sayin'

Amazon released 40 new features during Matt Garman’s opening keynote! Go check out buff.ly/xNZK1L9 to see all of them, including related blog posts 🚀

Ooohh Savings Plans now have specific Database Savings Plans, lower cost across the board if you commit to a 1-year term. Very nice. aws-news.com/article/2025...

Lambda Durable Functions are here! This one will take some time to wrap your head around. It’s like a state machine, where the function can delegate work and wait to be resumed - without incurring cost. I love this design and expect to use it a LOT. aws-news.com/article/2025...

Now I can FINALLY store a photo of your mom on S3! aws-news.com/article/2025...

The AWS News weekly digest just went out, and this edition is the prime example why you want to subscribe. Last week AWS published 95 news releases and 135 blog posts, and the digest shows you the top 10 at a glance. Easy as pie. Want to get all Re:Invent updates? aws-news.com?showSubscrib... 💌

Big day for networking in AWS. Introducing Interconnect Multicloud and Last Mile. The first offers native network integration with Google Cloud and soon Azure too. The second offers branch office connectivity straight into AWS. Huge news! aws-news.com/article/2025... aws-news.com/article/2025...

BOOM! AWS Lambda Managed Instances are here! This is an insane crossover between Lambda and EC2 - you can now select EC2 instances to host your Lambda Functions, giving you access to specific CPUs and cost savings plans. But be aware: this is for steady workloads! aws-news.com/article/2025...

Re:Invent 2025, here we come! Looking forward to a intense week of learning, seeing friends old and new, and most of all: FUN 🎉💃

Oooooh this is GOOD! You can now block public access to S3 buckets across the entire organization ❤️ Every org should consider turning this on by default. aws-news.com/article/2025...

After a false start about 7 weeks ago, *actual* automatic quota management is now available in AWS. It addresses a major pain point in AWS by actively monitoring quota usage and automatically raising the limit when you near it. aws-news.com/article/2025...

Last week saw a torrent of AWS releases.. but which ones were most popular? At first it looked to be ✨ Flat-rate pricing for CloudFront, but in the end 📖 API Gateway Developer Portals got more views! See aws-news.com/popular for the full articles.

Enterprises, rejoice! CloudFront now supports client certificates / mutual TLS! aws-news.com/article/2025...

Unique visitor counts for The AWS News Feed tell me it's almost Thanksgiving 🦃📈

I've updated the stats view on the AWS News Feed to show the daily granularity. This is what Pre:Invent 2025 looks like... and the reason I felt quite overwhelmed last week 😅

Oh I LIKE this! ECS Express Mode - simple setup for ECS services, including scaling, task definitions, domain names, and an ALB! super nice for those (many) use cases you just want to spin up a simple container. Also, 100 bonus points for IaC support out of the box! aws-news.com/article/2025...

YAAAASS! Private API Gateways finally get direct integration with ALBs! No more NLB gymnastics! LOVE seeing all these APIGW Pre:Invent releases ❤️ aws-news.com/article/2025...

Fascinating release for environments with high compliance requirements: VPC Encryption Controls. They monitor and enforce all traffic in a VPC is encrypted at the hardware level by only allowing Nitro-based hardware. aws-news.com/article/2025...

This is incredible

All these AWS Pre:Invent releases are nice, but they broke dark mode on public CloudWatch dashboards. Literally unusable.

OMFG look at these stickers! Come find me at Re:Invent if you want one 👀

If you haven't subscribed to the AWS News Feed daily digest, now is the time! Yesterday AWS released 56 (!) new features, and the daily digest brings the top 10 straight to your inbox. Find the subscribe link in the comments 💌

Holy shit, Multi-AZ NAT Gateways! Regional NAT Gateways automatically expand across AZs based on active workloads and scale as new AZs are added. We no longer need to manually add a NATGW per AZ! But.. pricing is not live yet. buff.ly/ZHb4wZL

Busy day for Pre:Invent releases! • Lambda - Tenant Isolation - buff.ly/rNCexKo • Control Tower - Controls Dedicated experience - buff.ly/y3xENqZ • Organizations - Billing Transfer to manage multiple orgs - buff.ly/y3xENqZ • EKS - Container Network Observability - buff.ly/tE82dXM

Python 3.14 is now available on AWS Lambda! Benchmarks show 3.14 is quite a bit faster than 3.13, but please note that you might see slower cold starts while 3.14 usage is still low. aws-news.com/article/2025...

AWS launches flat-rate pricing plans for CloudFront that combine website delivery, security, and DNS services with no overage charges across four tiers from free to $1,000/month.

Flat-rate pricing in AWS - that's a BIG departure from pay-per-use for all the things! Products included in the plan are CloudFront distros and functions, WAF, DDoS protection, Route53 and a few others. Pricing: Free ($0), Pro ($15), Business ($200), and Premium ($1,000). Of course, limits apply.

A proper Pre:Invent release! Amazon Managed Airflow (MWAA) now has a serverless run mode. No UI, pay-per-use, and immediately available in 15 regions. aws-news.com/article/2025...

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