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Luc van Donkersgoed
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AWS Serverless Hero & Principal Engineer @ PostNL
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Today's AWS News daily digest is delayed! I'm using SQS to schedule the emails, and today, for the first time, the email was too large. Just needs a quick rewrite to S3, so it's coming soon. Apologies for the delay!

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If ChatGPT ever becomes malevolent, I might be to blame. Sorry.

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Check out Sonaris, a AWS security system which detects and blocks actors scanning for vulnerabilities on EC2 and S3. They scan 200 billion events per minute (!) and block 83% of abuse attempts. Love seeing AWS move closer to "security in the cloud" too. aws-news.com/article/0192...

How AWS uses active defense to help protect customers from security threats
How AWS uses active defense to help protect customers from security threats

AWS uses Sonaris, an active defense tool, to analyze network traffic and automatically restrict threat actors attempting to scan for exploitable vulnerabilities...

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AWS Lookout for Equipment was already deprecated. Now Lookout for Metrics is out too. Fair decision - there are more than enough widely used services which offer the same capabilities. Users have until October 2025 to move away. aws-news.com/article/0192...

Transitioning off Amazon Lookout for Metrics
Transitioning off Amazon Lookout for Metrics

Amazon announced plans to discontinue Amazon Lookout for Metrics, its service for anomaly detection in time-series metrics, recommending customers transition to...

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I expected AWS to add Valkey to ElastiCache. I did not expect them to lower the price compared to Redis OSS 😮 33% cheaper for Serverless, 20% cheaper for instance based, AND a 90% lower minimum sizing, at 100MB. This is a big win for caching in AWS. aws-news.com/article/0192...

Announcing Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey
Announcing Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey

Amazon ElastiCache introduces support for Valkey, an open-source high-performance key-value datastore, offering lower costs with Serverless pricing 33% lower an...

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The latest AWS News Weekly Digest is now in your inbox! In it you will find our new sponsor Archera. If you like AWS News, give them a visit. It would help the platform, and they actually have a pretty cool product!

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Luc van Donkersgoed
@lucvandonkersgoed.com
AWS Serverless Hero & Principal Engineer @ PostNL
326 followers270 following380 posts