I will give a PostNL-internal workshop "how to build your first AI agent" soon. The participants will learn about interacting with local data and external systems through tools and an agentic loop. To get them started quickly, I built a simple interface and display to interface with. Pretty nice!

Yesterday I released community voting on The AWS News Feed. But did you know your votes directly influence which articles make it to the daily digest email? So if you think everyone needs to know about a release, give it an upvote!

A long overdue update! AWS finally updates their SDKs retry policy from “insane” to “sensible”, including shorter retry delays for transient errors and limited retry attempts. aws-news.com/article/2026...

Did.. the AWS News Feed just get social? Yes it did! You can now vote articles up and down, Reddit-style. Let the world know what you think. And this is just the first step. I have many ideas to add more community insights to AWS News. Stay tuned!

Something's brewing at The AWS News Feed 👀

Anthropic has signed a deal to use "all of the compute capacity at [the SpaceX / xAI] Colossus 1 data center" which allows them to immediately raise session limits by 2x. Awesome news for Claude Code users, who have been in a serious compute crunch the past few weeks. buff.ly/86JDZSB

Woah some of the oldest AWS limits have been broken - IAM now supports 10k roles, 8k character trust policies, and 10k customer managed policies per account! aws-news.com/article/2026...

Dear diary, today I found my AWS News Frontend repo was missing push restrictions on the main branch. How did I found out? Because Claude Code committed straight to main, triggering an untested production deployment. In other news, The AWS News Feed now has infinite scroll. Oh well.

Pages might have a memory leak. Maybe.

Amazon is sunsetting their worst named service (impressive in itself) in favor of Kiro (one of their better products); Q Developer is now dead. aws-news.com/article/2026...

Ooooh this is a breakthrough: OpenAI GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.4 models are now on Bedrock! Limited preview for now, but I'm sure they will go GA soon. Perfect for review-by-different-model-family use cases! buff.ly/dEmsMh5

VPC Egress is a nice addition to Bedrock AgentCore Gateway. If every API is a tool, private APIs should definitely be in the mix! Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway and Identity support VPC egress aws-news.com/article/2026...

There are times The AWS News Feed daily digest surprises me… and I built the darn thing! There are just so many releases, it’s too easy to miss some. But on AWS News the crowd determines the most popular articles, they end up in my inbox every day, and I never miss an important announcement ❤️

I've followed the hype and tried Caveman. After a few hours, I'm convinced it's a bad idea. By reducing everything to caveman talk, context, nuance and details are lost. LLMs match the output to the input style, so hooga-booga in is hooga-booga out. We all want to save tokens, but this ain't it.

This is how it starts - Claude Code now denies Opus 4.6 ever even existed. It was all just a fever dream 🤨

Opus 4.7 is now available in Amazon Bedrock! Let’s hope the Claude limits for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet go back to normal now 😅

Working on some diagrams for a doc on AI SDLC and I accidentally created this, which might turn out to be prescient..

I built a sponsor dashboard for The AWS News Feed. It's still insane to me how easy this has become for side projects. This was about an hour of work!

Do you think The AWS News Feed looks like crap? Personally, I do. And I don't have the skills to do better - so now I'm talking to a design agency to create a proper UI/UX design! But real quality costs real money, and the feed is (and will remain!) free to use. So I'm looking for sponsors! [cont]

More goodies from AWS: regional capabilities (services, APIs, CloudFormation support) are now programmatically accessible through S3, at no cost! aws-news.com/article/2026...

AWS now provides programmatic access to Regional availability data for services, APIs, and CloudFormation resources through Amazon S3, enabling organizations to automate deployment validation and multi-region planning workflows.

This is useful: AWS AgentCore Agent Registry to keep track of all agents (A2A and MCP) in your organization, promoting reuse and preventing duplication. aws-news.com/article/2026...

I guess it was inevitable - S3 is a filesystem now. It has full NFS compatibility, and uses an actual EFS storage layer for active files. Does this finally settle the question “is it a file or is it an object”? aws-news.com/article/2026...

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! 📈

Do I have any friends on Goodreads? I want to see what you’re reading! Send me a friend request at

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... 💌