Luc van Donkersgoed
@lucvandonkersgoed.com
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AWS Serverless Hero & Principal Engineer @ PostNL
First talk of 2026 is in the books! I presented โจ AI Agents Demystified โจ 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 โค๏ธ
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This was a long time coming, glad it's finally here: SQS, Async Lambda, and EventBridge now support payloads up to 1 MB
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More room to build: serverless services now support payloads up to 1 MB
AWS has increased the maximum payload size from 256 KB to 1 MB for asynchronous Lambda invocations, Amazon SQS, and Amazon EventBridge, enabling developers to ...
https://aws-news.com/article/2026-01-29-more-room-to-build-serverless-services-now-support-payloads-up-to-1-mb
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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 โค๏ธ
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The AWS European Sovereign Cloud (ESC) has launched!
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Opening the AWS European Sovereign Cloud
AWS European Sovereign Cloud is now generally available, offering EU-based organizations independent cloud infrastructure with enhanced sovereignty controls, E...
https://aws-news.com/article/2026-01-15-opening-the-aws-european-sovereign-cloud
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Non-AI topics get 10% of the keynote, but 70% of the attention on the AWS News Feed. Just sayin'
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Amazon released 40 new features during Matt Garmanโs opening keynote! Go check out
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The AWS News Feed
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Ooohh Savings Plans now have specific Database Savings Plans, lower cost across the board if you commit to a 1-year term. Very nice.
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Introducing Database Savings Plans for AWS Databases
AWS launches Database Savings Plans, offering up to 35% cost savings on managed database services with flexible 1-year commitments across multiple database eng...
https://aws-news.com/article/2025-12-02-introducing-database-savings-plans-for-aws-databases
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Lambda Durable Functions are here! This one will take some time to wrap your head around. Itโs 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.
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AWS Lambda announces durable functions for multi-step applications and AI workflows
AWS Lambda introduces durable functions that enable developers to build reliable multi-step applications and AI workflows with automatic checkpointing, long-te...
https://aws-news.com/article/2025-12-02-aws-lambda-announces-durable-functions-for-multi-step-applications-and-ai-workflows
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Now I can FINALLY store a photo of your mom on S3!
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Amazon S3 increases the maximum object size to 50 TB
Amazon S3 now supports objects up to 50 TB, a 10x increase from the previous 5 TB limit, enabling storage and processing of large files like high-resolution vi...
https://aws-news.com/article/2025-12-02-amazon-s3-increases-the-maximum-object-size-to-50-tb
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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?
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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!
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AWS announces gated preview of AWS Interconnect - last mile
AWS Interconnect - last mile is a fully managed connectivity service enabling customers to connect branch offices and data centers to AWS with simplified setup...
https://aws-news.com/article/2025-12-01-aws-announces-gated-preview-of-aws-interconnect-last-mile
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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!
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Introducing AWS Lambda Managed Instances: Serverless simplicity with EC2 flexibility
AWS Lambda Managed Instances enables running Lambda functions on EC2 instances with serverless simplicity, offering specialized compute options, cost optimizat...
https://aws-news.com/article/2025-12-01-introducing-aws-lambda-managed-instances-serverless-simplicity-with-ec2-flexibility
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Re:Invent 2025, here we come! Looking forward to a intense week of learning, seeing friends old and new, and most of all: FUN ๐๐
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Oooooh this is GOOD! You can now block public access to S3 buckets across the entire organization โค๏ธ Every org should consider turning this on by default.
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Amazon S3 Block Public Access now supports organization-level enforcement
Amazon S3 Block Public Access now supports organization-level enforcement through AWS Organizations, enabling you to standardize and enforce S3 public access s...
https://aws-news.com/article/2025-11-26-amazon-s3-block-public-access-now-supports-organization-level-enforcement
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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.
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Automatic quota management is now AWS Service Quotas adds support for automatic quota management
AWS Service Quotas now automatically adjusts service quotas based on usage patterns, eliminating the need for manual quota increase requests and reducing the r...
https://aws-news.com/article/2025-11-25-automatic-quota-management-is-now-aws-service-quotas-adds-support-for-automatic-quota-management
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Last week saw a torrent of AWS releases.. but which ones were most popular? At first it looked to be โจ Flat-rate pricing for CloudFront, but in the end ๐ API Gateway Developer Portals got more views! See
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Enterprises, rejoice! CloudFront now supports client certificates / mutual TLS!
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Trust goes both ways: Amazon CloudFront now supports viewer mTLS
Amazon CloudFront now supports viewer mutual TLS (mTLS) authentication, enabling bidirectional certificate verification between clients and CloudFront to enhan...
https://aws-news.com/article/2025-11-24-trust-goes-both-ways-amazon-cloudfront-now-supports-viewer-mtls
3 months ago
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Unique visitor counts for The AWS News Feed tell me it's almost Thanksgiving ๐ฆ๐
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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 ๐
3 months ago
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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!
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Build production-ready applications without infrastructure complexity using Amazon ECS Express Mode
Amazon ECS Express Mode simplifies deploying production-ready containerized applications by automating infrastructure setup including load balancing, auto scal...
https://aws-news.com/article/2025-11-21-build-production-ready-applications-without-infrastructure-complexity-using-amazon-ecs-express-mode
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YAAAASS! Private API Gateways finally get direct integration with ALBs! No more NLB gymnastics! LOVE seeing all these APIGW Pre:Invent releases โค๏ธ
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Build scalable REST APIs using Amazon API Gateway private integration with Application Load Balancer
Amazon API Gateway REST APIs now support direct private integration with Application Load Balancers, eliminating the need for intermediary Network Load Balance...
https://aws-news.com/article/2025-11-21-build-scalable-rest-apis-using-amazon-api-gateway-private-integration-with-application-load-balancer
3 months ago
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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.
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Introducing VPC encryption controls: Enforce encryption in transit within and across VPCs in a Region
AWS VPC encryption controls enable organizations to audit and enforce encryption in transit for all traffic within and across VPCs in a Region, with monitor an...
https://aws-news.com/article/2025-11-21-introducing-vpc-encryption-controls-enforce-encryption-in-transit-within-and-across-vpcs-in-a-region
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All these AWS Pre:Invent releases are nice, but they broke dark mode on public CloudWatch dashboards. Literally unusable.
3 months ago
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OMFG look at these stickers! Come find me at Re:Invent if you want one ๐
3 months ago
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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 ๐
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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.
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Busy day for Pre:Invent releases! โขย Lambda - Tenant Isolation -
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โขย Control Tower - Controls Dedicated experience -
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โขย Organizations - Billing Transfer to manage multiple orgs -
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โขย EKS - Container Network Observability -
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Streamlined multi-tenant application development with tenant isolation mode in AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda introduces tenant isolation mode, enabling multi-tenant applications to process invocations in separate execution environments per tenant without de...
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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.
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Python 3.14 runtime now available in AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda now supports Python 3.14 as a managed runtime and container base image, featuring new language enhancements like template strings, deferred type ann...
https://aws-news.com/article/2025-11-18-python-314-runtime-now-available-in-aws-lambda
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3 months ago
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.
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AWS announces flat-rate pricing plans for website delivery and security
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.
https://aws-news.com/article/019a98ab-7d7c-4c5e-82ba-42d53bbec693
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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.
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Introducing flat-rate pricing plans with no overages
AWS launches flat-rate pricing plans for CloudFront with no overage charges, combining CDN, security, and DNS services into predictable monthly tiers ($0โ$1,00...
https://aws-news.com/article/2025-11-18-introducing-flat-rate-pricing-plans-with-no-overages
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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.
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Introducing Amazon MWAA Serverless
Amazon MWAA Serverless is a new deployment option for Apache Airflow that eliminates operational overhead through serverless scaling, pay-per-use pricing, and ...
https://aws-news.com/article/2025-11-17-introducing-amazon-mwaa-serverless
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Busy day for AWS announcements, with over 15 releases spanning services like Redshift, Backup, ECS, Route53, and EC2 Image Builder! Want the most important updates right in your inbox? Subscribe to the Daily Digest at
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I'm thrilled to welcome
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as an AWS News Silver sponsor for six full months! BlueArch offers a powerful CLI FinOps tool for AWS environments. Go check them out!
3 months ago
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It's only "shit I need to order AWS News stickers" days until Re:Invent 2025!
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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...
https://aws-news.com/article/2025-11-14-aws-lambda-enhances-event-processing-with-provisioned-mode-for-sqs-event-source-mapping
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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...
https://aws-news.com/article/2025-11-13-aws-network-load-balancer-now-supports-quic-protocol-in-passthrough-mode
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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!
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JWT auth support in AWS ALBs? Best Pre:Invent release so far!
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Application loadbalancer support client credential flow with JWT verification
AWS Application Load Balancer now supports JWT verification for secure machine-to-machine communications, enabling OAuth 2.0 token validation without applicati...
https://aws-news.com/article/2025-11-12-application-loadbalancer-support-client-credential-flow-with-jwt-verification
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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.
https://aws-news.com/article/2025-11-12-introducing-our-final-aws-heroes-of-2025
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It's only three weeks until Re:Invent 2025! This means peak season for the AWS News Feed ๐ 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!
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3 months ago
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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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.
https://aws-news.com/article/019a5b15-46ed-61c5-2570-ad08ac0a4bba
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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...
https://aws-news.com/article/2025-11-06-introducing-aws-capabilities-by-region-for-easier-regional-planning-and-faster-global-deployments
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3 months ago
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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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.
https://aws-news.com/article/019a4b20-5c1d-b04d-2c53-8ad936fa12bb
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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...
https://aws-news.com/article/2025-11-03-amazon-cognito-removes-machine-to-machine-app-client-price-dimension
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Holy cow ๐ฎ 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 ๐ณ The next two months are going to be insane!
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Big day for AWS releases, which is no surprise with just over one month until Re:Invent 2025.
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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...
https://aws-news.com/article/2025-10-29-announcing-aws-x-ray-sdksdaemon-end-of-support-and-opentelemetry-migration
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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...
https://aws-news.com/article/2025-10-28-amazon-kinesis-data-streams-now-supports-10x-larger-record-sizes
4 months ago
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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!
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Itโs turtles all the way down โ 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 weโฆ
https://youtu.be/XZGehH0KFno
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