Good Morning!
Suddenly it’s conference season again. Monktoberfest is next week in the wilds of Maine, Kubecon is around the corner in Atlanta, and then of course there’s re:Invent, where scuttlebutt has it I’m giving two talks.
What conferences should I think about speaking at in the next year or so?
From the Community
I missed the Redmonk piece on DocumentDB and the Future of Open Source when it came out. You should read it too.
A deeper dive into Amazon S3 Vectors than I’m prepared to conduct myself this year.
Microsoft apparently had a bug that allowed an attacker to obtain Global Admin in every Entra ID and just… nobody seemed to bat an eye. Security is dead.
I mentioned our article S3 Intelligent-Tiering: What It Takes To Actually Break Even to someone last week, so it’s probably time to surface it again.
Podcasts
Last Week In AWS: AWS Proudly Promotes Its Superior Competitors
Screaming in the Cloud: From Aurora to PlanetScale: Intercom’s Database Evolution with Brian Scanlan
Choice Cuts
Qwen models are now available in Amazon Bedrock – Qwen models are also available in my laptop. I bet the Anthropic folks love this enhancement.
AWS Budgets now supports custom time periods – This is terrifying, because if you start doing things like "tracking weekly AWS costs" then you’re suddenly into a very sharp forest of edge cases.
Amazon CloudWatch launches Cross-Account and Cross-Region Log Centralization – Where the hell was this a decade ago? How many Lambda functions get to be retired now? The pricing is even generous!
Amazon S3 now supports conditional deletes in S3 general purpose buckets – This isn’t as useful as I was hoping, as I can’t set the conditional as "delete this if the data is nonsense."
New fault action in AWS FIS to inject I/O latency on Amazon EBS volumes – "What’s the most noteworthy part about introducing latency to disk volumes?" "We charge the customer extra to do it."
AWS has once again announced a change (in this case, changing the email address from which invoices show up), only to walk it back prior to implementation.
Use Raspberry Pi 5 as Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes for edge workloads – This is more than a bit strange: as I read the pricing (how the hell many vCPUs does a single Raspberry Pi 4-core CPU present as?), each month costs about as much as the purchase price of the Raspberry Pi.
Malware Protection for S3 Expands File Size and Archive Scanning Limits – Wait–you used to be able to evade malware scanning just by padding the file size? And technically you still can? Uh… that doesn’t sound terrific.
AWS named as a Leader in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Native Application Platforms and Container Management – I wonder if they’re talking about Lambda or Fargate or ECS or EKS or CodeBuild or App Runner or Proton or…
Migrate from Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet to Claude 4 Sonnet on Amazon Bedrock – The fact that this is anything other than "update the model identifier string" puts the lie to an awful lot of the value proposition that Bedrock came out of the gate with.
Tools
Thinkst Canary built out a AWS Infrastructure Canarytoken that I like very much.
We learned that Anthropic does actually run their Claude models on top of Trainium for inference (okay, sure, AWS is bad at naming things) as well as Google’s TPUs, and Nvidia’s GPUs. This is a deeper look into their infrastructure than any we’ve seen before.
… and that’s what happened Last Week in AWS.
