Someone's AWS bill went from $0.19 to $2,4B overnight. Yes, 2.4 billion dollars 📈 💸 For an account with a single S3 bucket that hasn't been touched since 2023 and isn't even public.
AWS just shipped a control plane for running Claude Code across your whole engineering org! 🤩 It's called the Claude apps gateway A self-hosted container on ECS, EKS, or EC2, with PostgreSQL behind it. What it fixes
AWS Transform now builds your whole multi-account setup... ... from a conversation! 🙌
Another "my AI agent blew up my AWS bill" story has landed! $6,531 in 24 hours for an 8 GB job 😅 Someone gave their agent full AWS access plus a deadline to port-scan DN42, a hobbyist BGP network with maybe 2,000 live hosts. The agent decided it needed (be prepared!!):
ECS just got a live deployment timeline in the console! 🙌 I've always liked ECS, but following a deployment was genuinely hard. Service events in one tab, task list in another, CloudWatch alarms in a third, and you still couldn't tell why a rollout was hanging.
Static IAM access keys should have died years ago. Yet every week someone posts the same horror story 🙄 Here: Admin user compromised, attacker launches EC2 instances, victim has no clue how the key leaked. That's the core problem with long lived keys: They leak silently
One company manages 6,000 AWS accounts with three people 😅 Not 60. Not 600. Six thousand! 🔥 Each customer gets their own isolated account with the full microservice stack → 40 services, ~120,000 deployed instances, roughly 1 million Lambda functions across the fleet.
Did somebody take the AWS Serverless plugin for Claude Code for a longer ride? It knows serverless patterns! 👀 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀 • Lambda, API Gateway, EventBridge, Step Functions • Scaffolds with SAM or CDK (defaults to TypeScript + CDK 💪)
I honestly don't know why more engineers don't use workshops.aws 🛠️ It's a collection of free, hands-on guides that work! The ECS Immersion Day is one that I will keep recommending! It covers Fargate from the ground up: no server management, just containers running on demand.
810 upvotes on Hacker News for a post about leaving AWS. I read the whole thing twice. Most of the complaints are skill issues imho. Going point by point from my point of view. Disclaimer: maybe opinionated, but I tried not to be. 1. Account suspension
AWS Blocks looks like SST and Local/Ministack got fused into one framework! Open source, all TypeScript 🔥 You get the abstracted "build a backend fast" part (Postgres, auth, real-time messaging, file uploads, background jobs, AI agents) plus the run-it-all-locally part with zero AWS account
Someone spent ~15M Claude tokens to build a proper skill for Bedrock AgentCore! Didn't try it yet but looks promising! Included: • SKILL .md routing file mapping use case → stack → files to open • 20 reference files covering common scenarios (Strands, Bedrock, AgentCore)
We run all of AWS Fundamentals on AWS for less than the price of lunch! The whole June bill is forecasted at $22.74. That covers a 6-account AWS Organization. Multiple serverless frontends and backends, our course platform, and everything we build. Several million requests a month.
AWS just shipped a FinOps Agent that spots a cost anomaly, investigates the root cause on its own, and drops the findings in your Slack channel! 👀 I just worked with the new DevOps agent and that's what sold me on this one. Setup was easy and it ran really nice!
I ran 10+ AWS accounts for years before I realized Named Profiles were the piece that makes the whole setup click! Most of us still handle AWS credentials like it's 2018 via aws configure - at least that's what I see on a regular basis!
A 3-person agency just got a $14k AWS bill in 1d. Involved suspects: static access keys & Bedrock 🫠 Their account normally runs $10-15/mo for a small internal tool. They wanted to try Bedrock for a chatbot and used existing access keys...
Same OpenAI pricing, but the data stays inside AWS. GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, and Codex just went GA on Amazon Bedrock! 🎉 Prompts and responses never leave your region, never get used to train models, never get shared with OpenAI (hard to verify I guess 😅)
Pausing an AI agent on AWS for human approval needs 5 AWS services For one button click 🫠 Actual stack to make waitForTaskToken work end-to-end: 1. Step Functions to hold the paused state 2. Lambda to send the approval notification (Slack, email, whatever)
Localstack community edition is dead 🪦 😢 Ministack is near drop-in replacement, and floci keeps coming up in the same conversations. I really like Ministack, but most of the time ephemeral stacks on real AWS beat any local emulator Where local still helps:
A lot has changed since we last shipped our AWS Fundamentals e-book. So we just updated 11 chapters for v2.3! A few updates that are included: 1. Free Plan replaced the Free Tier
Step Functions can now run Bedrock agents as a native workflow step! No more Lambda-wrapping-an-agent 🫰 You can drop agent reasoning directly into a state machine, right next to your Lambda, ECS, DynamoDB, whatever task! Cool things
If you're running AWS and GCP, your cross-cloud bandwidth bill just dropped hopefully! AWS Interconnect's free 500 Mbps tier is live 🫰 What's in the free tier: • 500 Mbps (managed Tier 1 Interconnect) • Around 160 TB/mo of data transfer on the AWS side
OpenSearch Serverless finally scales to zero! Also claims to be 60% cheaper and 20x faster to scale up! The "old version" wasn't serverless at all => A 2 OCU minimum meant you paid A LOT per month even if not used. Claims from gen 2: • Scales from 0 to thousands of requests per second
AI is amplifying AWS knowledge gaps, not closing them. None of this is the AI's fault. The gap is knowing what to ask and what to push back on. Alex made a similar point recently. Vibe-administering AWS through the console is a great receipt for disaster.
`cdk deploy --revert-drift` shipped in March!! I just found out today! CDK 2.1110.0 added a flag that auto-reverts any manual console or CLI changes back to what your code says. Built on top of CloudFormation's REVERT_DRIFT deployment mode from November 2025! How it works:
TIL "Managed Agents" are available on Bedrock. Only OpenAI models available, but there's no need for the boring boilerplate around them anymore! 💪 TL;DR: ootb you get • Own IAM identity • Action logs for every step • Inference on Bedrock • Compute via AgentCore
Oracle Cloud just joined AWS Interconnect! The multicloud club gets its second member 🤝 This is the new AWS service for private, resilient connections between AWS and other cloud providers. No more DIY network plumbing across vendors. State right now: • GCP generally available
AWS just doubled the SCP quotas. About time!! What changed. • Policies per node went from 5 to 10 • Characters per policy went from 5,120 to 10,240
I've been skeptical of the Codex hype (Opus always seemed first for programming), but it got genuinely good! Good enough that AWS built it into Bedrock 💪 Bedrock just added OpenAI models, Codex, and Managed Agents. Limited preview, live since April 28.