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.

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! aws-news.com/article/2025...

Amazon Cognito simplifies M2M authentication pricing by removing the app client price dimension, allowing customers to only pay for successful token requests.

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. aws-news.com/article/2025...

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!

Big day for AWS releases, which is no surprise with just over one month until Re:Invent 2025.

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! aws-news.com/article/2025...

SQS: I now support 1MiB messages! Kinesis: hold my beer (Kinesis now supports 10MiB record sizes) aws-news.com/article/2025...

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!

👀 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. aws-news.com/article/2025...

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!

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 👀

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. aws-news.com/article/2025...

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. aws-news.com/article/2025...

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. aws-news.com/article/2025...

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... 🚀

Vector search? In ElastiCache?! Oh my! aws-news.com/article/2025...

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.

Vector search? In ElastiCache?! Oh my! aws-news.com/article/2025...

AWS announces availability changes for multiple services, including moving services to maintenance, entering sunset phase, and reaching end of support, affecting 24 AWS services and tools.

AWS has announced the deprecation of 22 services. Most of these are no surprise, although I did not expect S3 Object Lambda here. Most deprecated services will remain available for existing users, but will become off limits if you did not use them before. aws-news.com/article/2025...

New milestones! The AWS News Feed now has over 2k digest subscribers and sent out over 20k emails in the past 30 days ✉️ 💌 📈 The AWS News digests are the best way to stay on top of everything new in AWS, especially with Re:Invent 2025 approaching. Not subscribed yet? Do it here: buff.ly/Qe3cvlJ!

Had a wonderful time at AWS Community Day Nordics in the lovely city of Gothenburg ❤️ Thanks to the audience for asking questions that really made me think, and thanks to organizers and sponsors for a great event!

Early morning flight to Gothenburg. Looking forward to speaking about the art of modularity and abstraction at AWS Community Day Nordics tomorrow!

Amazon and I have a different definition of "Automatic quota management" 😬 This announcement should have been titled "Service Quotas now support notifications"! aws-news.com/article/2025...

Reserved seating for AWS Re:Invent opens October 14th! The best and most popular sessions will be gone in seconds, so making a personal must-see list is ✨essential✨. Luckily my friend Raphael Manke made the best session planner for just this purpose. Go check it out at reinvent-planner.cloud!

I'm ready to call it - the Pre:Invent '25 season has (un)officially started with the release of ECS Managed Instances. To keep track of the deluge of releases coming our way, I've added the Pre:Invent '25 feed to AWS News. Go take a look and subscribe with email or RSS 👉 buff.ly/2QPW0Ha

Big release! Amazon ECS adds the new Managed Instances option, which works like Fargate but allows you to select either specific EC2 instance types or the EC2 properties you’d like. This allows for much more flexibility, like fast single threaded performance or GPUs. aws-news.com/article/2025...

Whaddayaknow, we can finally run ECS in IPv6 only subnets! This removes one of the primary reasons I still have NAT Gateways and IPv4 addresses in my accounts. Time for a bit of autumn cleaning 🧹🧹 aws-news.com/article/2025...

Annnnd my talk at ComSum 2025 is a wrap too! Such a great audience, great questions, and I adore the Victoria Warehouse ❤️ Thanks for having me!

AWS Community Day Benelux is in the books!

Speaking at AWS Community Day Benelux today ❤️ Unfortunately I can't stay to chat, because I'm running to Schiphol immediately after for ComSum Manchester! Stoked to speak at these two great events in 24 hours.

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...