I try to tweet novel things about AWS.“Shit-poster extraordinaire” according to @LastWeekInAWS. He/him. AWS Serverless Hero
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13 Dec 2022
This is probably the most delightful thing I have ever read about myself. I love it so much.
@forrestbrazeal: thank you for *getting* me.
Everyone else: read the whole article, it’s great.
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May 29
When I verify ownership of a domain in AWS SES, that should let me send an email to *@${domain} while in the sandbox.
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Apr 19
I think I’ve built the first AI-native fax service.
I think there’s a good chance it might remain the only AI-native fax service, because the intersection of people who care about those two things might round to zero.
awsteele.com/blog/2026/04/19…
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I noticed a pattern in my AWS Step Function executes that were triggered by an EventBridge schedule, so here's a blog post about it.
awsteele.com/blog/2026/04/01…
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Apr 1
Thank you for fixing this, AWS aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wha…
Feb 24
It's frustrating that CloudFront signed URLs only support SHA-1, and KMS only supports newer algorithms. It seems there's no way to do signed URLs without having to store key material.
It's even more annoying that my account can't just use S3 transfer acceleration instead.
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Mar 28
AI needs a better intuition for avoiding "expensive" operations.
It's annoying to see it call `takes-5-minutes | tail 10` and then decide immediately thereafter to run `takes-5-minutes > /tmp/log.txt` and read it.
What can I tweak to make it consistently skip the first step?
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Mar 27
Someone at AWS: "How do we pump up our Amazon Q numbers?"
Someone else at AWS: "How about a second button?"
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Mar 2
New frustration just dropped: AWS won't let me run even one t4g.nano in us-west-2.
This account has spent a few hundred bucks in the past few months. I've had EC2 instances running in ap-southeast-2 for months.
How can I get out of this service quota naughty corner?
Feb 23
Today's frustration: my Lambda functions are limited to 3008 MB of RAM. I've filed a case in both dev and prod accounts.
Mind you, my "please enable S3 transfer acceleration" case is still unassigned, 8 days later.
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Feb 24
It's frustrating that CloudFront signed URLs only support SHA-1, and KMS only supports newer algorithms. It seems there's no way to do signed URLs without having to store key material.
It's even more annoying that my account can't just use S3 transfer acceleration instead.
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Feb 23
Today's frustration: my Lambda functions are limited to 3008 MB of RAM. I've filed a case in both dev and prod accounts.
Mind you, my "please enable S3 transfer acceleration" case is still unassigned, 8 days later.
Feb 14
It's exhausting to have an AWS org has been through multiple billing cycles, spending over $100/month and still get papercuts on Every. Single. Little. Thing.
Domains fail to register. CodeBuild allowlisting. S3 transfer acceleration allowlisting. And it's per account!
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Feb 18
Claude Code on the web, Codex Web, et al should make an OIDC token available to the container. This would be better than an AWS access key, GCP keys, etc.
On the team/enterprise plans it would identify the session itself, the user who kicked it off, the repo, the enterprise ID.
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Feb 16
301 (out of 1,436 total) of AWS' IAM managed policies got a version bump a few days ago. It all happened in a 6 minute window (centred around 2026-02-12T18:00Z), with zero actual changes to the policy documents. Weird.
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Feb 14
It's exhausting to have an AWS org has been through multiple billing cycles, spending over $100/month and still get papercuts on Every. Single. Little. Thing.
Domains fail to register. CodeBuild allowlisting. S3 transfer acceleration allowlisting. And it's per account!
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Feb 11
Today a CloudFront distribution took over an hour to deploy and I had flashbacks to ~2012, waiting 90 minutes for deployments (45 minutes to fail, 45 minutes for CloudFormation to rollback those changes)
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Feb 2
This is a great release! I'm excited to be able to use these values in RCPs.
aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wha…
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30 Dec 2025
2025 was a busier year than 2024. Also my first time on a propeller plane: an ATR 72 from SZB to PEN. That was cool.
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25 Dec 2025
Be sure to unescape your HTML before you do a production run of collectibles.
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19 Dec 2025
I tell someone they should use CloudFront. They ask “won’t we need to request permission to use it?” because their Route 53 domain registration failed yesterday. I said I’m sure it’s fine. Then they get this error. This onboarding is so bad, it’s embarrassing.
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19 Dec 2025
AWS, let me pay you $100 when I spin up a new org just so I can get past all these hurdles. I’m even willing to wait a month cooling-off period. I just don’t want to have to beg to use each service on a feature-by-feature basis.
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26 Nov 2025
I’m bringing this Australian delicacy to re:invent next week. Let me know if you want one. They’re… surprisingly divisive
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24 Nov 2025
This is a really nice QoL improvement that makes using CFN stack sets more pleasant. You used to have to put everything in one big stack if you had any kind of dependencies.
aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/…
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