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Luc van Donkersgoed @lucvandonkersgoed.com · 1d

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 · 3d

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 · 4d

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 · 10d

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 · 11d

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 · 12d

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 · 13d

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 · 17d

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 · 18d

AWS Community Day Benelux is in the books!

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Luc van Donkersgoed @lucvandonkersgoed.com · 18d

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 · 23d

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 · 23d

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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Luc van Donkersgoed @lucvandonkersgoed.com · Sep 3

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!

Luc van Donkersgoed @lucvandonkersgoed.com · Aug 31

If you're interested in all news AWS and want to help increase this chart's incline, subscribe here: aws-news.com?showSubscrib... 💌

The AWS News Feed

Keep track of AWS news and blogs. See what's hot, read summaries, search, set bookmarks and ratings, and categorize articles with tags.

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Luc van Donkersgoed @lucvandonkersgoed.com · Aug 31

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!

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Luc van Donkersgoed @lucvandonkersgoed.com · Aug 29

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!

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Luc van Donkersgoed @lucvandonkersgoed.com · Aug 28

Subscribe to email notifications here: aws-news.com/custom_feed/...

The AWS News Feed

Keep track of AWS news and blogs. See what's hot, read summaries, search, set bookmarks and ratings, and categorize articles with tags.

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Luc van Donkersgoed @lucvandonkersgoed.com · Aug 28

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.

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Luc van Donkersgoed @lucvandonkersgoed.com · Aug 28

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.

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AWS Management Console now supports assigning a color to an AWS account for easier identification

AWS Management Console introduces account color settings, allowing admins to visually distinguish between different AWS accounts using colored navigation b...

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Luc van Donkersgoed @lucvandonkersgoed.com · Aug 25

Try it out with Jeff Barr's official news feed and get emailed as soon as AWS releases significant features, regions, and new services: aws-news.com/custom_feed/...

The AWS News Feed

Keep track of AWS news and blogs. See what's hot, read summaries, search, set bookmarks and ratings, and categorize articles with tags.

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Luc van Donkersgoed @lucvandonkersgoed.com · Aug 25

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!

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