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Luc van Donkersgoed @lucvandonkersgoed.com · 23h

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.

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Introducing URL and host header rewrite with AWS Application Load Balancers

AWS Application Load Balancers now support native URL and host header rewrites using regex matching, enabling more sophisticated traffic routing and path trans...

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Luc van Donkersgoed @lucvandonkersgoed.com · 1d

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.

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Introducing Amazon EBS Volume Clones: Create instant copies of your EBS volumes

Amazon EBS Volume Clones allows users to create instant point-in-time copies of encrypted volumes within the same Availability Zone with a single API call ...

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Luc van Donkersgoed @lucvandonkersgoed.com · 2d

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... 🚀

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Luc van Donkersgoed @lucvandonkersgoed.com · 2d

Vector search? In ElastiCache?! Oh my!

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Announcing vector search for Amazon ElastiCache

AWS introduces vector search for Amazon ElastiCache, enabling developers to index, search, and update billions of high-dimensional vector embeddings with low l...

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The AWS News Feed @aws-news.com · 2d

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.

Announcing vector search for Amazon ElastiCache

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.

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Luc van Donkersgoed @lucvandonkersgoed.com · 2d

Vector search? In ElastiCache?! Oh my!

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Announcing vector search for Amazon ElastiCache

AWS introduces vector search for Amazon ElastiCache, enabling developers to index, search, and update billions of high-dimensional vector embeddings with low l...

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The AWS News Feed @aws-news.com · 2d

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 Service Availability Updates

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.

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Luc van Donkersgoed @lucvandonkersgoed.com · 2d

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.

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AWS Service Availability Updates

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

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Luc van Donkersgoed @lucvandonkersgoed.com · 3d

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!

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Luc van Donkersgoed @lucvandonkersgoed.com · 5d

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!

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Luc van Donkersgoed @lucvandonkersgoed.com · 7d

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

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Luc van Donkersgoed @lucvandonkersgoed.com · 8d

Amazon and I have a different definition of "Automatic quota management" 😬 This announcement should have been titled "Service Quotas now support notifications"!

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Automatic quota management is now generally available for AWS Service Quotas

AWS introduces automatic quota management for Service Quotas, enabling proactive monitoring and notifications about resource usage across AWS services to h...

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Luc van Donkersgoed @lucvandonkersgoed.com · 13d

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!

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Luc van Donkersgoed @lucvandonkersgoed.com · 15d

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

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Luc van Donkersgoed @lucvandonkersgoed.com · 15d

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.

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Announcing Amazon ECS Managed Instances for containerized applications

Amazon ECS Managed Instances offers developers a fully managed container compute environment that combines the simplicity of serverless with the flexibilit...

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Luc van Donkersgoed @lucvandonkersgoed.com · 16d

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 🧹🧹

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Amazon ECS announces IPv6-only support

Amazon ECS now supports IPv6-only workloads, enabling containerized applications to run in IPv6 environments without IPv4 dependencies while maintaining compat...

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Luc van Donkersgoed @lucvandonkersgoed.com · 21d

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!

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Luc van Donkersgoed @lucvandonkersgoed.com · 22d

AWS Community Day Benelux is in the books!

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Luc van Donkersgoed @lucvandonkersgoed.com · 22d

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.

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The AWS News Feed @aws-news.com · 26d

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.

AWS Organizations supports full IAM policy language for service control policies (SCPs)

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.

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Luc van Donkersgoed @lucvandonkersgoed.com · 26d

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!

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Unlock new possibilities: AWS Organizations service control policy now supports full IAM language

AWS Organizations now supports full IAM policy language capabilities for service control policies, enabling more precise and flexible access management wit...

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Luc van Donkersgoed @lucvandonkersgoed.com · Sep 11

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!
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AWS launches CloudTrail MCP Server for enhanced security analysis

AWS introduces a CloudTrail MCP server that enables AI agents to perform advanced security and compliance analysis across AWS environments using conversational...

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Luc van Donkersgoed @lucvandonkersgoed.com · Sep 11

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.

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Accelerate serverless testing with LocalStack integration in VS Code IDE

AWS introduces LocalStack integration in VS Code, enabling developers to test and debug serverless applications locally without complex configuration, enha...

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Luc van Donkersgoed @lucvandonkersgoed.com · Sep 10

👀 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!

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AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) Launches Refactor

AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) introduces a new refactor feature that enables developers to safely rename, move, and reorganize infrastructure as code resourc...

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Luc van Donkersgoed @lucvandonkersgoed.com · Sep 3

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!

Amazon CloudWatch query alarms now support monitoring metrics individually

Amazon CloudWatch now enables monitoring multiple individual metrics via a single dynamic query-based alarm that automatically adjusts as resources change,...

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