Anders Bjørnestad
@abjoerne.bsky.social
AWS Community Hero and long term user of the platform (since early 2010). Working as a consultant out of Oslo, Norway. Part of https://listen-to-the-heroes.com/
AWS UG Oslo is hosting a meetup on Nov 18th. "Developing with Kiro" by @haakoned.bsky.social and "European Sovereign Cloud" by me. RSVP at www.meetup.com/aws-user-gro... #awsnordics #vibecoding #datasovereignty
"Developing with Kiro" and "European Sovereign Cloud", Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 5:00 PM | Meetup
Agenda
* 17:00 - 17:30: Pizza, snacks and networking
* 17:30 - 18:15: Welcome and ESC
* 18:15 - 18:30: Break
* 18:30 - 19:00: Kiro
* 19:00 - 21:00: Q&A, discussions, socia
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October 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
AWS UG Oslo is hosting a meetup on Nov 18th. "Developing with Kiro" by @haakoned.bsky.social and "European Sovereign Cloud" by me. RSVP at www.meetup.com/aws-user-gro... #awsnordics #vibecoding #datasovereignty
Are your AWS lambda-functions still on Python 3.9? Time to move on. EOL is reached 30OCT and support is ending 15DEC. Remember that you will not be able to update these functions down the road #aws #lambda #serverless
September 15, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Are your AWS lambda-functions still on Python 3.9? Time to move on. EOL is reached 30OCT and support is ending 15DEC. Remember that you will not be able to update these functions down the road #aws #lambda #serverless
Amazon Aurora DSQL is generaly available, check it out. And probably interesting for those of you enjoying a bit more than just a test-run - "Just make it scale: An Aurora DSQL story" about the making of DSQL
www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/05/just...
www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/05/just...
Just make it scale: An Aurora DSQL story
AWS Senior Principal Engineers, Niko Matsakis and Marc Bowes, take us inside Aurora DSQL's development: scaling write operations without two-phase commit, overcoming garbage collection hurdles, and em...
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May 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Amazon Aurora DSQL is generaly available, check it out. And probably interesting for those of you enjoying a bit more than just a test-run - "Just make it scale: An Aurora DSQL story" about the making of DSQL
www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/05/just...
www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/05/just...
Finally - AWS is open about services being moved into EOL and makes it easy to follow this. Earlier it was "hidden" in product-docs/blogs and direct targeted emails. Now everything is coming in one place aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in... and aws.amazon.com/products/lif...
Introducing the AWS Product Lifecycle page and AWS service availability updates | Amazon Web Services
Today, we’re introducing the AWS Product Lifecycle page, a centralized resource that provides comprehensive information about service availability changes across AWS. The new AWS Product Lifecycle pag...
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May 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Finally - AWS is open about services being moved into EOL and makes it easy to follow this. Earlier it was "hidden" in product-docs/blogs and direct targeted emails. Now everything is coming in one place aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in... and aws.amazon.com/products/lif...
Are you attending AWS Stockholm Summit. Join me and Ricardo Sueiras at "DEV202 Increasing productivity with Amazon Q Developer agents" in the afternoon. aws.amazon.com/events/summi... #listentotheheroes
April 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Are you attending AWS Stockholm Summit. Join me and Ricardo Sueiras at "DEV202 Increasing productivity with Amazon Q Developer agents" in the afternoon. aws.amazon.com/events/summi... #listentotheheroes
Join AWS User Group Oslo on our 10 year anniversary meeting 🎉 on May 26th. Sebastian Anton and @nojones.net will talk about Security. Sponsor is ardoq.com 🙏 www.meetup.com/aws-user-gro...
Security in focus and AWS User Group Oslo 10 years anniversary!, Mon, May 26, 2025, 4:30 PM | Meetup
This meeting will take place *exactly (on the day)* 10 years after our first meeting! 🥳 - Do not miss out on this opportunity to be able to say that you attended the anniv
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April 25, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Join AWS User Group Oslo on our 10 year anniversary meeting 🎉 on May 26th. Sebastian Anton and @nojones.net will talk about Security. Sponsor is ardoq.com 🙏 www.meetup.com/aws-user-gro...
Just published a blogpost on creating Custom Billing Views in AWS with the CLI dev.to/abjoerne/man.... #listen-to-the-heroes #aws #finops
Manage your custom Billing Views as code
The custom billing view was introduced by AWS back in December 2024, but still a lot of customers...
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April 7, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Just published a blogpost on creating Custom Billing Views in AWS with the CLI dev.to/abjoerne/man.... #listen-to-the-heroes #aws #finops
AWS Nordic news: We welcome AWS Bedrock to Stockholm - right now very limited modelselection (Amazon Nova Lite, Amazon Nova Micro, and Amazon Nova Pro) aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...
Amazon Bedrock now available in the Europe (Stockholm) region - AWS
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon Bedrock now available in the Europe (Stockholm) region
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March 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
AWS Nordic news: We welcome AWS Bedrock to Stockholm - right now very limited modelselection (Amazon Nova Lite, Amazon Nova Micro, and Amazon Nova Pro) aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...
Are you using the scheduler in AWS (Eventbridge) with cron-based scheduling? Be aware that Sun=1, so 1-5 will be SUN-THU and not MON-FRI as you would expect in other cronjobs. Use char, not numbers when setting up to avoid confusion. docs.aws.amazon.com/scheduler/la... #listentotheheroes
Schedule types in EventBridge Scheduler - EventBridge SchedulerSchedule types in EventBridge Scheduler - EventBridge Scheduler
Learn about cron-based, rate-based, and one-time schedule types, as well as how EventBridge Scheduler handles daylight savings time and time zones.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/scheduler/latest/UserGuide/schedule-types.html#cron-based#listentotheheroes
March 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Are you using the scheduler in AWS (Eventbridge) with cron-based scheduling? Be aware that Sun=1, so 1-5 will be SUN-THU and not MON-FRI as you would expect in other cronjobs. Use char, not numbers when setting up to avoid confusion. docs.aws.amazon.com/scheduler/la... #listentotheheroes
Are you looking into moving your workload from the standard AWS-cloud into the new AWS European Sovereign Cloud when it opens? Here is a list of services planed to be there initially.
aws.amazon.com/blogs/securi...
#listentotheheroes
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#listentotheheroes
Announcing initial services available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, backed by the full power of AWS | Amazon Web Services
August 8, 2024: We updated this post to include Amazon Neptune on the initial service list. July 16, 2024: We updated this post to include AWS Wickr on the initial service list. English | French | Ger...
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February 26, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Are you looking into moving your workload from the standard AWS-cloud into the new AWS European Sovereign Cloud when it opens? Here is a list of services planed to be there initially.
aws.amazon.com/blogs/securi...
#listentotheheroes
aws.amazon.com/blogs/securi...
#listentotheheroes
Death to data transfer fees in AWS and Optimizing Music Discovery with AWS are the two topics we have for our next AWS User Group meeting in Oslo on March 11th. Full description and RSVP at www.meetup.com/aws-user-gro... Thanks to Bekk Consulting www.bekk.no for sponsoring this event.
“Death to Data Transfer Fees” and “Optimizing Music Discovery” , Tue, Mar 11, 2025, 4:30 PM | Meetup
Hello and welcome everybody!
This time we can offer you the audience no less than *two* very interesting presentations! Approx. 30 minutes duration on each plus Q&A and di
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February 24, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Death to data transfer fees in AWS and Optimizing Music Discovery with AWS are the two topics we have for our next AWS User Group meeting in Oslo on March 11th. Full description and RSVP at www.meetup.com/aws-user-gro... Thanks to Bekk Consulting www.bekk.no for sponsoring this event.
Reposted by Anders Bjørnestad
Are humans the limiting factor in AI-assisted software development? I wrote why we might be, and what we need to do to break through the current productivity ceiling.
Are humans the limiting factor in AI-assisted software development?
For software developers foundational models and LLMs have become helpful tools. But they are far from making us 10x more productive. In this essay we will explore why AI seems to have reached a pro…
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February 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Are humans the limiting factor in AI-assisted software development? I wrote why we might be, and what we need to do to break through the current productivity ceiling.
About AWS ARNs and your infra as code: This is good: "arn:aws:ec2:${AWS::Region}..." Even better is to use "arn:${AWS::Partition}:ec2...." . AWS EU-cloud is coming soon as a separate partition, you might want to be able to deploy there also! go.aws/4gxNORz #listentotheheroes
AWS Digital Sovereignty Pledge: Announcing a new, independent sovereign cloud in Europe | Amazon Web Services
French | German | Italian | Spanish From day one, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has always believed it is essential that customers have control over their data, and choices for how they secure and manage ...
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January 28, 2025 at 2:12 PM
About AWS ARNs and your infra as code: This is good: "arn:aws:ec2:${AWS::Region}..." Even better is to use "arn:${AWS::Partition}:ec2...." . AWS EU-cloud is coming soon as a separate partition, you might want to be able to deploy there also! go.aws/4gxNORz #listentotheheroes
Amazon S3 Tables are now available in Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Stockholm), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo). This makes it way easier to test things out without having to break the barrier of moving data to the US.
January 18, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Amazon S3 Tables are now available in Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Stockholm), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo). This makes it way easier to test things out without having to break the barrier of moving data to the US.
Just watch a really good presentation about the parts of the AWS-network you do not see, but use. "Dive deep on AWS networking infrastructure" Highly recommended to learn about networking at scale #listentotheheroes #networking
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJNR...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJNR...
AWS re:Invent 2022 - Dive deep on AWS networking infrastructure (NET402)
YouTube video by AWS Events
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January 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Just watch a really good presentation about the parts of the AWS-network you do not see, but use. "Dive deep on AWS networking infrastructure" Highly recommended to learn about networking at scale #listentotheheroes #networking
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJNR...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJNR...
Are you working with CDK and in the process of learning it or just looking for more input. This free(!) ebook have lot of samples from real life (with code in github). real-life-iac.com #listentotheheroes
January 3, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Are you working with CDK and in the process of learning it or just looking for more input. This free(!) ebook have lot of samples from real life (with code in github). real-life-iac.com #listentotheheroes
A huge thank you to the Amazon Aurora team. Migrating an old Mysql5 from serverless v1 to Mysql8 on serverless v2 was super-smooth. 5 CLI-commands and 40 mins later everything was done while I had control. Same connectionstring and automated backups on every step! Just super-smooth #databases #aws
December 19, 2024 at 3:48 PM
A huge thank you to the Amazon Aurora team. Migrating an old Mysql5 from serverless v1 to Mysql8 on serverless v2 was super-smooth. 5 CLI-commands and 40 mins later everything was done while I had control. Same connectionstring and automated backups on every step! Just super-smooth #databases #aws
We are doing a re:Cap of re:Invent in Oslo on Jan 13th www.meetup.com/aws-user-gro...
re:Invent re:Cap 2024, Mon, Jan 13, 2025, 4:30 PM | Meetup
In this meeting we will focus on key announcements from re:Invent 2024 being most relevant for the broader audience in Norway.
This meeting will be hosted at Capra locatio
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December 19, 2024 at 3:02 PM
We are doing a re:Cap of re:Invent in Oslo on Jan 13th www.meetup.com/aws-user-gro...
One more time: After 8 JAN you can not start a new Aurora serverless v1 cluster. This most likely means that old v1-snapshots also will be useless!!! Or if your v1-cluster crashes you are in trouble. Time to migrate clusters *and also migrate old snapshots if needed* #listentotheheroes
December 18, 2024 at 1:48 PM
One more time: After 8 JAN you can not start a new Aurora serverless v1 cluster. This most likely means that old v1-snapshots also will be useless!!! Or if your v1-cluster crashes you are in trouble. Time to migrate clusters *and also migrate old snapshots if needed* #listentotheheroes
This is really good work by
@raphaelmanke.bsky.social
AWS session-catalog with links to slides and youtube-videos for re:Invent 2024.
#listentotheheroes
@raphaelmanke.bsky.social
AWS session-catalog with links to slides and youtube-videos for re:Invent 2024.
#listentotheheroes
Missed #reInvent 2024? No worries! The unofficial planner is now updated with session slides and video recordings. 📅✨ Rewatch your favorites or discover new ones based on topic, level, or interest anytime, anywhere. Happy learning and happy holidays! 🎄🎉
reinvent-planner.cloud/sessions
reinvent-planner.cloud/sessions
December 16, 2024 at 9:14 AM
This is really good work by
@raphaelmanke.bsky.social
AWS session-catalog with links to slides and youtube-videos for re:Invent 2024.
#listentotheheroes
@raphaelmanke.bsky.social
AWS session-catalog with links to slides and youtube-videos for re:Invent 2024.
#listentotheheroes
Reposted by Anders Bjørnestad
All content from re:Invent is now available, including 📹 videos for Breakout Sessions and 📊 slide decks for Chalk Talks: aws.amazon.com/events/event...
#listentotheheroes
#listentotheheroes
AWS Events Content
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December 12, 2024 at 11:23 AM
All content from re:Invent is now available, including 📹 videos for Breakout Sessions and 📊 slide decks for Chalk Talks: aws.amazon.com/events/event...
#listentotheheroes
#listentotheheroes
I made a draft with newsreleases at re:Invent (and preInvent and postInvent). Might be duplicates or missing items and also my own grouping of services so use at your own risk docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #listentotheheroes
re:Cap
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December 11, 2024 at 1:52 PM
I made a draft with newsreleases at re:Invent (and preInvent and postInvent). Might be duplicates or missing items and also my own grouping of services so use at your own risk docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #listentotheheroes
If you are still on AWS Aurora Serverles v1 it is time to migrate to v2! AWS announced this aprox a year ago so time to get moving! aws.amazon.com/blogs/databa.... #listentotheheroes
Upgrade from Amazon Aurora Serverless v1 to v2 with minimal downtime | Amazon Web Services
Important AWS has announced the end-of-life date for Aurora Serverless v1: March 31st, 2025. We strongly recommend upgrading any Aurora Serverless v1 DB clusters to Aurora Serverless v2 before that da...
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December 11, 2024 at 9:05 AM
If you are still on AWS Aurora Serverles v1 it is time to migrate to v2! AWS announced this aprox a year ago so time to get moving! aws.amazon.com/blogs/databa.... #listentotheheroes
Amazon Bedrock: We are reducing the prices for content filters by 80% to $0.15 per 1,000 text units and for denied topics by 85% to $0.15 per 1,000 text units. aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh.... #listentotheheroes
Amazon Bedrock Guardrails reduces pricing by up to 85% - AWS
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon Bedrock Guardrails reduces pricing by up to 85%
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December 11, 2024 at 7:59 AM
Amazon Bedrock: We are reducing the prices for content filters by 80% to $0.15 per 1,000 text units and for denied topics by 85% to $0.15 per 1,000 text units. aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh.... #listentotheheroes