Some big milestones for AWS News this week! 1⃣ Less than a year after launch I've got 700+ registered users 🛫 2⃣ In less than 6 months since launching email digests I've now got 600+ subscribers 🚀 And Re:Invent 2024 is still coming up 🤯
Oof it's a big day for AWS deprecations. First IoT Device Management Fleet Hub, then Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for SQL, and now CloudWatch Evidently. aws-news.com/article/0192...
AWS plans to discontinue CloudWatch Evidently, a feature launching and experimentation service, on 10/17/2025, recommending customers transition to using AWS Sy...
The next AWS deprecation is here: AWS IoT Device Management Fleet Hub is out in a year. I'm glad to see AWS has now generally communicates these in an open and honest way. aws-news.com/article/0192...
AWS announces the end-of-life of its AWS IoT Device Management Fleet Hub feature, effective October 18th, 2025, providing customers with ample time to plan and ...
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!
Whyy are they calling it DocDB?! It breaks my head 😩 aws-news.com/article/0192...
AWS Database Migration Service Serverless now supports MongoDB and Amazon DocDB as data sources, enabling data migration from these databases to a variety of ta...
I'm glad to see CodePipeline getting new features. It's always been a very promising service, but just a little too limited. That's changing now. 🆕 Skipping stage: aws-news.com/article/0192...aws-news.com/article/0192... Nice.
AWS CodePipeline now supports automatic retry of a stage if any action in that stage fails, allowing pipelines to recover from transient errors instead of faili...
Annnd there goes the last member of the Lookout family. New customers can't use Amazon Lookout for Vision anymore. Existing customers are out in a year. aws-news.com/article/0192...
Amazon is discontinuing the Lookout for Vision service that creates custom computer vision AI/ML models for quality inspection, and this post discusses alternat...
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...
AWS uses Sonaris, an active defense tool, to analyze network traffic and automatically restrict threat actors attempting to scan for exploitable vulnerabilities...
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...
Amazon announced plans to discontinue Amazon Lookout for Metrics, its service for anomaly detection in time-series metrics, recommending customers transition to...