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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.

🧩 Architecture: a Cloudflare Worker routes by SNI, one Durable Object per tunnel holds the bridge WebSocket, a Workflow issues certificates. Inbound TCP runs on temporary #AWS relays until the Cloudflare Spectrum TCP Workers beta lands
🛠️ #Rust CLI plus a

Better check your cloud cost forecasts … 🫣
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/17/amazon-web-services-cust…

AWS zieht die Reißleine: Drei Rechenzentren in Bahrain und eine Zone in den Emiraten gelten laut @… als unwiederbringlich zerstört – Folge iranischer Angriffe. Wer dort ohne eigenes Backup war, hat jetzt ein Problem. Ein teures Argument für digitale Souveränität in Europa. #Cloudcomputing #AWS #DigitaleSouveränität https://www.heise.de/news/Iran-Krieg-Alle-AWS-Daten-in-Bahrain-sind-zerstoert-11454487.html

🌐 #cloud #aws

I joined #AWS ten years ago and recruited the team that figured out how to teach AWS how to run and support open source projects and foundations. We moved the reputation of AWS in the open source community from very negative to reasonably positive over a few years, and helped internal teams learn how to launch, manage and contribute to open source projects.

I was hired as a VP in #AWS Marketing and built a developer evangelism team by hiring people that the open source communities already knew and trusted. Zaheda Bhorat and Arun Gupta (who now runs Open Source at NVIDIA) were my first hires. Shirley Bailes used to run OSCON for OReilly, she got the budget to sponsor and operate all the Open Source conferences for AWS (FOSDEM, All things Open, Kubecon etc). Deirdre Straughn created and operated the social media and blogging channels.

☁️ #Floci is a free, #opensource local #AWS emulator built with #Quarkus Native — AWS-compatibl…

Good background on the #AWS acquisition of the #DuckDB team. They’ve been working together for several years. Looks like an engineering driven collaboration rather than a market driven one. This kind of thing tends to start well but fall apart when key people eventually leave (often after about 2 years). https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2026/08/duckdb-and-the-changing-physics-of-analytics.html