Screenshot of the blog post "AWS announces general availability of Smithy-Java client framework" with the following text highlighted "The framework allows you to generate clients from models and async patterns that increase cognitive load and maintenance burden for developers building modern Java applications."
Java developers and their weird requirements
I'm waiting on pricing before testing it, but hopefully they figure out a way to make that less of a problem
☁️ 🇪🇺 The third edition of fwd:cloudsec Europe will take place on September 7-8 in London!
The CFP has just opened, we're looking forward to your submissions! fwdcloudsec.org/conference/e...
It's not in the docs or on the pricing page (yet?), but t4g is not on those pages either, and the email specifically mentioned mq.m7g
AWS send us an email saying our t3.micro Managed RabbitMQ instance would go out of support in October 2026.
The next available supported option is m7g.medium, which is more than 5 times as expensive.
I've been on record about my problems with AMQ pricing, but still: 🤯
cc @awscloud.bsky.social
Tickets, scholarships, and sponsor info TBA, but interested sponsors can reach us at sponsorship@fwdcloudsec.org
fwd:cloudsec EU will be at the Park Plaza Victoria in London, UK on September 7 and 8. The Call for Sponsors is at: fwdcloudsec.org/assets/docs/...
We've locked in dates and venues for the North American (NA) and European (EU) fwd:cloudsec conferences this year!
fwd:cloudsec NA will be in the Seattle, Washington area at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue on June 1 and 2. 🧵
Probably drowned in all the other announcements (if it was even announced at all), but I'm very happy to read this on the blog post met initial services for AWS's European Sovereign Cloud (aws.amazon.com/blogs/securi...)
"Amazon CloudFront is expected to be available in by the end of 2026."
A blooming onion
Had some real Australian food at Outback steakhouse!
And that's the end of keynote 1
Database savings plans is huge. So now we can start asking for the same thing for ElastiCache and OpenSearch
I've talked with the CloudWatch team, and the Unified Storage has some cool ideas in it. Part of it being successful will be integrations, but with (e.g.) the S3 Tables interface they seem to know that.
That at least implies there's an API. That's helpful!
Cedar is the most poplar of the policy languages
I'm decently AI-sceptic, but if you have a use case for an AI agent, I have been pretty impressed with the way AgentCore tries to solve the operational problem. And an integration with Cedar sounds great. Hopefully the preview state doesn't force us too much to do everything with clickops
More models is not that surprising, but it is interesting that we have two public partnerships with Google now, with Gemma support in Bedrock and Interconnect Mulitcloud for the networking-folks: aws.amazon.com/interconnect...
for a more play-by-play, @scalefactory.com has a thread here: bsky.app/profile/scal...
I usually look at @esh.dev too, but I don't think he has a thread on bsky.
(and of course, go look at cloudar.be if you want to work with #dayjob to get a more personalized recap afterwards)
I'm at #AWSreinvent this week (reach out if you're also here!), so you might see some replies to this with thoughts about keynote announcements (I don't think they count as spoilers)
If you are attending AWS re:Invent this year and are wondering which sessions you can still reserve a seat for now that the first rush is over; I made you a list of sessions I added to my short list that are not at capacity yet: reinvent-planner.cloud/sessions/sha...
Time to start practicing how to say "eusc-de-east-1"
Some quotes that could be either IT or Science:
"I don't know what this is"
"I guess we're just going to turn it off"
"We'll deal with it on Monday"
Usually I'm the one called by work after hours, but today I'm watching my partner deal with "our -80 freezer is not cooling anymore" on a Friday evening.
It starts surprisingly similar to "our server is running out of disk space"... but ends with a lot more people with protective gloves in one room
I'm biased, but +1.
I'm on my way home from a very inspiring week!
I just witnessed this perfectly geeky exchange at work:
- I'm going to cache 404 errors for 30 seconds
- What about 418 errors?
- 3 to 4 minutes seems the most common time that people wait
- How about we follow ISO 3103 and do 6 minutes exactly?
I did a fun thing and gave every Belgian access to my AWS Account (or: playing around with IAM Roles Anywhere)
cloudar.be/awsblog/sign...
There's still time to apply for our scholarship which aims to give students or career changers a ticket and travel stipend to attend fwd:cloudsec Europe in Berlin, this September!
Details here: fwdcloudsec.org/assets/docs/...
Screenshot of the AWS Documentation. Title: "Step 5. Add CSS support in a Jenkins script", explaining how to use the Jenkins Script Console to execute the command `System.setProperty("hudson.model.DirectoryBrowserSupport.CSP", "")`
Screenshot of the Jenkins documentation, titled "Implementation", that explains that setting "hudson.model.DirectoryBrowserSupport.CSP" to an empty string will cause the "content security policy" header not to be sent at all. The middle of the page has an orange warning triangle next to the text "This is potentially very unsafe and should only be used after reviewing the overall security setup."
AWS documentation: "just trust me, bro"
Jenkins documentation: 🚨🚨🚨
