From the Community

cleancloud-io/cleancloud: CleanCloud helps SRE teams safely identify orphaned, unowned, and potentially inactive AWS storage and log resources — using conservative, read-only cloud hygiene checks designed for trust, not auto-cleanup. – empty

Abusing AWS Lambda to make an Aussie Search Engine | Ben E. C. Boyter – empty

https://github.com/huseyinbabal/taws – empty

When to Use Claude Code Skills vs Commands vs Agents | Daniel Miessler – empty

Small Plates – empty

Podcasts

Screaming in the Cloud: Avery Pennarun on Tailscale’s Evolution: From Mesh VPN to AI Security Gateway

Screaming in the Cloud: How Grokability Built a Profitable Open Source Business with Jeremy Price

Choice Cuts

Amazon Connect now provides the capability to store nested JSON object and looping arrays – empty

AWS Clean Rooms now supports detailed monitoring for collaboration queries – empty

AWS re:Invent 2025 Recap for Automotive and Manufacturing – empty

Optimize long-term video storage costs with Amazon Kinesis Video Streams warm storage tier – empty

How Frontier Communications uses Amazon Bedrock to transform customer insights from call transcripts – empty

EC2 Capacity Manager now includes Spot interruption metrics – empty

Enhance Amazon Quick Suite dashboards with on-demand data refresh – empty

Say Hello to 247 New AWS Competency, Service Delivery, Service Ready, and MSP Partners Added in December – empty

Happy New Year! AWS Weekly Roundup: 10,000 AIdeas Competition, Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS Managed Instances and more (January 5, 2026) – empty

Building scalable DERMS solutions for DER aggregators on AWS – empty

Where energy meets efficiency: Modernize HPC workflows with Leostream on AWS – empty

AWS Transfer Family is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) region – empty

Implementing ingress geo-restriction with AWS to reduce attack surface – empty

Implementing consistent DNS Query Logging with Amazon Route 53 Profiles – empty

Amazon EC2 G5 instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region – empty

AWS Resource Explorer is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. – empty

Simplify multi-warehouse data governance with Amazon Redshift federated permissions – empty

AWS Config now supports 21 new resource types – empty

Accelerating CFD development from years to weeks with agentic AI and AWS – empty

Amazon ECS now supports tmpfs mounts on AWS Fargate and ECS Managed Instances – empty

Breaking the custody chain: How AI is preventing surgical specimen mishandling – empty

Amazon MQ now supports HTTP based authentication for RabbitMQ brokers – empty

AWS Marketplace Seller Reporting now provides collections visibility – empty

Building scalable AWS Lake Formation governed data lakes with dbt and Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow – empty

Implement multi-Region endpoint routing for Amazon Aurora DSQL – empty

Amazon EMR Serverless eliminates local storage provisioning, reducing data processing costs by up to 20% – empty

Clinical doppelgangers: Accelerating pediatric insights – empty

Configure Optimize CPU on Amazon RDS for SQL Server – empty

How NatWest Simplified Contact Center Analytics with Amazon Connect analytics data lake – empty

Improve resilience of low latency applications with Amazon EBS and AWS FIS – empty

Automate sender ID registration in AWS End User Messaging – empty

Who is Peter DeSantis, Amazon’s new leader for AGI, chips, and quantum computing? – empty

Amazon EC2 I7ie instances now available in additional AWS regions – empty

Amazon EC2 C8i and C8i-flex instances are now available in additional AWS regions – empty

Building healthcare AI agents with open-source AWS HealthLake MCP server – empty

AWS analytics at re:Invent 2025: Unifying Data, AI, and governance at scale – empty

Your AI Coding Assistants Will Overwhelm Your Delivery Pipeline: Here’s How to Prepare – empty

Announcing Apache Airflow 2.11 Support in Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow – empty

AWS simplifies Client VPN onboarding with Quickstart setup – empty

Real-time malware defense: Leveraging AWS Network Firewall active threat defense – empty

Detect and redact personally identifiable information using Amazon Bedrock Data Automation and Guardrails – empty

Speed meets scale: Load testing SageMakerAI endpoints with Observe.AI’s testing tool – empty

How governments can deliver national data more securely and at scale – empty

Achieving distinct IP identity with AWS for enhanced control and connectivity – empty

From flat to full immersion: The AWS path to Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos – empty

Scaling medical content review at Flo Health using Amazon Bedrock (Part 1) – empty

Building an Insurance Policy AI Assistant using Amazon Bedrock – empty

Automating AWS SDK for Java v1 to v2 Upgrades with AWS Transform – empty

AWS in 2026: The Year of Proving They Still Know How to Operate – empty

.NET 10 runtime now available in AWS Lambda – empty

Amazon MQ now supports certificate based authentication with mutual TLS for RabbitMQ brokers – empty

Create AWS Glue Data Catalog views using cross-account definer roles – empty

Unlock Amazon Aurora’s Advanced Features with Standard JDBC Driver using AWS Advanced JDBC Wrapper – empty

A Healthcare Executive’s guide to digital transformation on AWS – empty

Tools

https://github.com/keidarcy/e1s – empty

… and that’s what happened Last Week in AWS.

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