Luc van Donkersgoed
@lucvandonkersgoed.com
AWS Serverless Hero & Principal Engineer @ PostNL
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...
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November 21, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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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YAAAASS! Private API Gateways finally get direct integration with ALBs! No more NLB gymnastics! LOVE seeing all these APIGW Pre:Invent releases ❤️
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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...
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November 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
YAAAASS! Private API Gateways finally get direct integration with ALBs! No more NLB gymnastics! LOVE seeing all these APIGW Pre:Invent releases ❤️
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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...
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November 21, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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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All these AWS Pre:Invent releases are nice, but they broke dark mode on public CloudWatch dashboards. Literally unusable.
November 20, 2025 at 7:58 PM
All these AWS Pre:Invent releases are nice, but they broke dark mode on public CloudWatch dashboards. Literally unusable.
OMFG look at these stickers! Come find me at Re:Invent if you want one 👀
November 20, 2025 at 11:18 AM
OMFG look at these stickers! Come find me at Re:Invent if you want one 👀
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 💌
November 20, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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 💌
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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November 19, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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!
• Lambda - Tenant Isolation - buff.ly/rNCexKo
• Control Tower - Controls Dedicated experience - buff.ly/y3xENqZ
• Organizations - Billing Transfer to manage multiple orgs - buff.ly/y3xENqZ
• EKS - Container Network Observability - buff.ly/tE82dXM
• Lambda - Tenant Isolation - buff.ly/rNCexKo
• Control Tower - Controls Dedicated experience - buff.ly/y3xENqZ
• Organizations - Billing Transfer to manage multiple orgs - buff.ly/y3xENqZ
• EKS - Container Network Observability - buff.ly/tE82dXM
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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November 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Busy day for Pre:Invent releases!
• Lambda - Tenant Isolation - buff.ly/rNCexKo
• Control Tower - Controls Dedicated experience - buff.ly/y3xENqZ
• Organizations - Billing Transfer to manage multiple orgs - buff.ly/y3xENqZ
• EKS - Container Network Observability - buff.ly/tE82dXM
• Lambda - Tenant Isolation - buff.ly/rNCexKo
• Control Tower - Controls Dedicated experience - buff.ly/y3xENqZ
• Organizations - Billing Transfer to manage multiple orgs - buff.ly/y3xENqZ
• EKS - Container Network Observability - buff.ly/tE82dXM
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...
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November 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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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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.
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.
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November 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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.
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.
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 ($0–$1,00...
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November 18, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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.
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 ...
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November 17, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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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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 aws-news.com?showSubscrib... 💌
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November 17, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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I'm thrilled to welcome BlueArch.io as an AWS News Silver sponsor for six full months! BlueArch offers a powerful CLI FinOps tool for AWS environments. Go check them out!
November 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I'm thrilled to welcome BlueArch.io as an AWS News Silver sponsor for six full months! BlueArch offers a powerful CLI FinOps tool for AWS environments. Go check them out!
It's only "shit I need to order AWS News stickers" days until Re:Invent 2025!
November 16, 2025 at 8:55 PM
It's only "shit I need to order AWS News stickers" days until Re:Invent 2025!
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...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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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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...
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November 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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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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!
November 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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!
JWT auth support in AWS ALBs? Best Pre:Invent release so far! aws-news.com/article/2025...
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...
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November 12, 2025 at 9:21 PM
JWT auth support in AWS ALBs? Best Pre:Invent release so far! aws-news.com/article/2025...
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.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Welcome to the AWS Heroes program Dimple, Rola, and Vivek! Hope to see you at Re:Invent!
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It's only three weeks until Re:Invent 2025! This means peak season for the AWS News Feed 📈 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!
November 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM
It's only three weeks until Re:Invent 2025! This means peak season for the AWS News Feed 📈 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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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.
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.
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November 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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!
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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...
aws-news.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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...
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Amazon Cognito simplifies M2M authentication pricing by removing the app client price dimension, allowing customers to only pay for successful token requests.
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.
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November 3, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Amazon Cognito simplifies M2M authentication pricing by removing the app client price dimension, allowing customers to only pay for successful token requests.