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📋 #AWS has made vector search in #DynamoDB generally available: embeddings live in the same table as operational data #vectorsearch

David Brown leaving #AWS after 19 years. I worked with him as a customer in the Netflix days and while I was also a VP at AWS and he was the best manager they ever had. Many of the broken teams/services at AWS in the early days were fixed by him. Super nice guy in person as well. Hasn’t said where he’s going next…

AWS EC2 leadership change: Dave Treadwell replaces Brown
AWS named Dave Treadwell to lead EC2 after 19-year veteran Dave Brown departed, signaling a major leadership change for Amazon Web Services compute.

At #AWS «AI servers typically recoup their cost in less than three years and then continue generating profits for another two ​to three years».
https://www.reuters.com/bu…

Neuer @Greenpeace-Report „Amazon's Toxic Web Services": AWS macht mit mindestens 100 von 263 Firmen Geschäfte, die selbst die Finanzindustrie aus ethischen Gründen meidet. Regenwaldzerstörung, fossile Expansion, Menschenrechtsverletzungen – für Amazons Cloud offenbar kein Ausschlussgrund. #Golem #AWS

fakecloud, #local #AWS cloud emulator for #integrationtests
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Better check your cloud cost forecasts … 🫣
#AWS
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/17/amazon-web-services-cust…

🛠️ Under the hood it still uses the #AWS #CDK, so you can drop back to standard AWS infrastructure at any time
💡 Why it matters: for the first time AWS is building a framework optimized not primarily for humans, but also for coding agents like Claude Code, Codex & Cursor. The core idea — AI …

fakecloud, #local #AWS cloud emulator for #integrationtests
https://…

⚠️ Current drawbacks: still public preview, APIs may change, Node.js 22 required & local mock implementations may behave differently from real AWS resources
📊 The real positioning: Blocks competes less as "yet another framework" and more as an alternative to #AWSAmplify, #Supabase

🧱 #AWS Blocks is a new #opensource framework from AWS (#Apache2 license) built specifically for the era of #Ai #coding