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AWS offers a billion dollars in savings to the US Government through its usual array of discount vehicles: spend commitment discounting, credits for migration, and credits for training. To be clear, nobody spending this much money is going to pay retail prices, so these discounts aren't out of line with the spend level.

I was unreasonably excited about the GitHub Action that deployed Lambdas for you last week. Mike Roberts highlights why I'm wrong, and I can't help but agree. Frankly what I think we all want is an AWS answer to Google Cloud Run: here's a container image, go run it for me at scale.

The UK government has asked people to delete old emails to reduce data center water use, apparently with a straight face. Strangely they haven't told companies to stop shoving AI into everything, nor have they apparently made the connection that the big data center locations in the UK are currently mostly not in locations experiencing drought. This brings "the internet is a series of tubes" to a whole new level of misunderstanding.

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Demystifying Amazon Bedrock Pricing for a Chatbot Assistant - Yeah, nah. You don't get to "demystify the pricing" when you're the folks who set that pricing in the first place. If you need a guide to explain your pricing model to customers, you very likely got it wrong.

Improving Your Visibility to AWS Sales: A Practical Guide for Partners - The shift from "here's how to show up for customers" to "here's how to show up to our own sales force" marks an inevitable shift in the AWS go to market story.

Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 in Amazon Bedrock Expanded Context Window - You can now prattle on for up to a million tokens, but note that this will cost you $3 to submit to the model.

Amazon EC2 Single GPU P5 instances are now generally available - GPUs work their magic via massive parallelization of their workloads, so to help out AWS now has an instance class that only offers one of them.

Announcing Extended Support for Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) version 3.6 - Version 3.6 of DocumentDB solves its greatest challenge: improving the service team's margins by ratcheting up the cost for folks who aren't tracking the leading edge release.

CVE-2025-8904 - Issue with Amazon EMR Secret Agent component - Oof. "Accidentally storing sensitive material in /tmp" is understandable, but still... oof. Glad they're disclosing it.

Amazon DynamoDB now supports more frequent throughput mode updates from provisioned to on-demand capacity - Yesterday you were able to update your throughput mode for DynamoDB only once a day, but today you can update it four times a day. At this rate we'll be into effectively infinite updates per day by re:Invent.

Validate radiology reports using Amazon Nova - Yeah let me get right on that. I feel fordoctors and other professionals who now have to contend with second opinions from ChatGPT.

Amazon FSx for OpenZFS now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) - OpenZFS and IPv6, two technologies that certain kinds of people just will not shut up about, ever.

AWS Resource Explorer now Supports Filtering for Multiple Values - Used to service teams who have to only care about one thing at a time (which is increasingly "not getting put on FOCUS"), AWS corrected an oversight as soon as they learned that customers are not quite like them.

AWS IAM Identity Center introduces support for user background sessions with Amazon SageMaker Studio - Oh you jerks. I would LOVE to be able to have long-running jobs that don't have to constantly checkpoint and renew credentials, particularly with chained roles. But no, that's exclusively reserved for the SageMaker team.

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now supports decreasing your SSD storage capacity - Someone on the FSx team remembered that autoscaling means "can scale back down at some point."

AWS Security Incident Response now supports membership coverage for individual AWS organizational units - Security is everyone's job, but apparently some parts of the org need it more than others.

Understanding AWS Savings Plan Recommendations: Payer vs. Linked Account Views - This is a good article that touches on some important points, but I want to highlight something hidden near the end: Savings plans should be purchased in "designated accounts with no workloads," since they're gonna completely cover the account they're purchased within before applying anywhere else. This is almost never what you want to happen.