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Jeroen Reijn @jeroenreijn.com · 10h

In July, AWS announced a powerful update to Amazon ECS with built-in support for blue/green deployments. Now two additional built in deployment strategies have been added: linear and canary deployment. This eliminates having to use CodeDeploy. aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...

Amazon ECS now supports built-in Linear and Canary deployments - AWS

Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon ECS now supports built-in Linear and Canary deployments

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Jeroen Reijn @jeroenreijn.com · 19h

Thanks! 🙏

Jeroen Reijn @jeroenreijn.com · 6d

Likewise!

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Jeroen Reijn @jeroenreijn.com · 10d

#hugops to all on call AWS engineers

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Jeroen Reijn @jeroenreijn.com · 10d

It seems some services in us-east-1 still have degraded operations. That’s a long disruption 😲. I hope they will share an extensive post mortem. Looking forward to learn from the lessons learned!

Jeroen Reijn @jeroenreijn.com · 10d

Ah yes I misunderstood. I expect the same that people are misreporting.

Jeroen Reijn @jeroenreijn.com · 10d

Not sure what that graph is based on though. I don't see any issues when looking at the Azure status page. It might be lagging behind off course. azure.status.microsoft/en-gb/status

Azure status

Check the current Azure health status and view past incidents.

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Jeroen Reijn @jeroenreijn.com · 11d

While trying to figure out of there was anything wrong with our jira and bitbucket cloud signin it seems AWS is having issues in us-east-1 .

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Jeroen Reijn @jeroenreijn.com · 16d

You can now become an AWS Certified Generative AI Developer - Professional! 😅 Machine Learning specialty is being retired and the Security Specialty is getting an update! #aws #certification aws.amazon.com/blogs/traini...

Big news: AWS expands AI certification portfolio and updates security certification | Amazon Web Services

AWS announces major certification updates, introducing the AWS Certified Generative AI Developer - Professional certification and refreshing the AWS Certified Security – Specialty exam with enhanced...

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Jeroen Reijn @jeroenreijn.com · 17d

Yeah I had the same feeling and figured the same 😅

Jeroen Reijn @jeroenreijn.com · 17d

Yes that was a late one! I think it was around 6 or 7pm or so Vegas time

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Jeroen Reijn @jeroenreijn.com · 17d

Yeah I know. Last time I was in Vegas though. Time wise it would have been much better if it was around 15:30 Vegas time like this year. Especially with all the long days and jet lag 😀

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Jeroen Reijn @jeroenreijn.com · 17d

Well it seems that I will most likely watch this years Werner Vogels re:Invent keynote the next day as it seems to start at 30 minutes past midnight Amsterdam local time. No keynote watch party this time 😅 reinvent.awsevents.com/keynotes/ #aws #reinvent

AWS re:Invent 2025 Keynotes | Amazon Web Services

Hear from AWS leaders about what’s top of mind for them, from innovations in infrastructure and AI/ML to the latest trends and breakthroughs in cloud computing.

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Jeroen Reijn @jeroenreijn.com · 24d

In my latest post, I show how to improve observability for Windows EC2 instances using the Amazon CloudWatch Agent, fully automated with AWS CDK (TypeScript).

www.jeroenreijn.com/2025/10/impr...

#aws #cdk #observability #cloudwatch

Improve observability for Windows EC2 instances with the CloudWatch Agent

Learn how to improve observability for Windows based EC2 instances with the CloudWatch agent via AWS CDK in TypeScript, including CloudWatch agent configuration and Windows performance counters.

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