Luc van Donkersgoed
AWS Serverless Hero & Principal Engineer @ PostNL
- First talk of 2026 is in the books! I presented ✨ AI Agents Demystified ✨ at the AWSUG NL Re:Cap in our own PostNL head offices. The audience response was really good so I'm considering sending it in to some conferences. Let me know if this is a good fit for your event ❤️
- This was a long time coming, glad it's finally here: SQS, Async Lambda, and EventBridge now support payloads up to 1 MB aws-news.com/article/2026...
- I am super happy to welcome AWS itself as a Gold sponsor for the AWS News Feed! Their content and marketing team acknowledges the unique value of the AWS News Feed and we're looking forward to working together more in the months and years to come ❤️
- The AWS European Sovereign Cloud (ESC) has launched! aws-news.com/article/2026...
- Non-AI topics get 10% of the keynote, but 70% of the attention on the AWS News Feed. Just sayin'
- Amazon released 40 new features during Matt Garman’s opening keynote! Go check out buff.ly/xNZK1L9 to see all of them, including related blog posts 🚀
- Ooohh Savings Plans now have specific Database Savings Plans, lower cost across the board if you commit to a 1-year term. Very nice. aws-news.com/article/2025...
- Lambda Durable Functions are here! This one will take some time to wrap your head around. It’s like a state machine, where the function can delegate work and wait to be resumed - without incurring cost. I love this design and expect to use it a LOT. aws-news.com/article/2025...
- Now I can FINALLY store a photo of your mom on S3! aws-news.com/article/2025...
- The AWS News weekly digest just went out, and this edition is the prime example why you want to subscribe. Last week AWS published 95 news releases and 135 blog posts, and the digest shows you the top 10 at a glance. Easy as pie. Want to get all Re:Invent updates? aws-news.com?showSubscrib... 💌
- Big day for networking in AWS. Introducing Interconnect Multicloud and Last Mile. The first offers native network integration with Google Cloud and soon Azure too. The second offers branch office connectivity straight into AWS. Huge news! aws-news.com/article/2025... aws-news.com/article/2025...
- BOOM! AWS Lambda Managed Instances are here! This is an insane crossover between Lambda and EC2 - you can now select EC2 instances to host your Lambda Functions, giving you access to specific CPUs and cost savings plans. But be aware: this is for steady workloads! aws-news.com/article/2025...
- Re:Invent 2025, here we come! Looking forward to a intense week of learning, seeing friends old and new, and most of all: FUN 🎉💃
- Oooooh this is GOOD! You can now block public access to S3 buckets across the entire organization ❤️ Every org should consider turning this on by default. aws-news.com/article/2025...
- After a false start about 7 weeks ago, *actual* automatic quota management is now available in AWS. It addresses a major pain point in AWS by actively monitoring quota usage and automatically raising the limit when you near it. aws-news.com/article/2025...
- Last week saw a torrent of AWS releases.. but which ones were most popular? At first it looked to be ✨ Flat-rate pricing for CloudFront, but in the end 📖 API Gateway Developer Portals got more views! See aws-news.com/popular for the full articles.
- Enterprises, rejoice! CloudFront now supports client certificates / mutual TLS! aws-news.com/article/2025...
- Unique visitor counts for The AWS News Feed tell me it's almost Thanksgiving 🦃📈
- I've updated the stats view on the AWS News Feed to show the daily granularity. This is what Pre:Invent 2025 looks like... and the reason I felt quite overwhelmed last week 😅
- Oh I LIKE this! ECS Express Mode - simple setup for ECS services, including scaling, task definitions, domain names, and an ALB! super nice for those (many) use cases you just want to spin up a simple container. Also, 100 bonus points for IaC support out of the box! aws-news.com/article/2025...
- YAAAASS! Private API Gateways finally get direct integration with ALBs! No more NLB gymnastics! LOVE seeing all these APIGW Pre:Invent releases ❤️ aws-news.com/article/2025...
- Fascinating release for environments with high compliance requirements: VPC Encryption Controls. They monitor and enforce all traffic in a VPC is encrypted at the hardware level by only allowing Nitro-based hardware. aws-news.com/article/2025...
- Reposted by Luc van DonkersgoedThis is incredible
- All these AWS Pre:Invent releases are nice, but they broke dark mode on public CloudWatch dashboards. Literally unusable.
- OMFG look at these stickers! Come find me at Re:Invent if you want one 👀
- If you haven't subscribed to the AWS News Feed daily digest, now is the time! Yesterday AWS released 56 (!) new features, and the daily digest brings the top 10 straight to your inbox. Find the subscribe link in the comments 💌
- Holy shit, Multi-AZ NAT Gateways! Regional NAT Gateways automatically expand across AZs based on active workloads and scale as new AZs are added. We no longer need to manually add a NATGW per AZ! But.. pricing is not live yet. buff.ly/ZHb4wZL
- Busy day for Pre:Invent releases! • Lambda - Tenant Isolation - buff.ly/rNCexKo • Control Tower - Controls Dedicated experience - buff.ly/y3xENqZ • Organizations - Billing Transfer to manage multiple orgs - buff.ly/y3xENqZ • EKS - Container Network Observability - buff.ly/tE82dXM
- Python 3.14 is now available on AWS Lambda! Benchmarks show 3.14 is quite a bit faster than 3.13, but please note that you might see slower cold starts while 3.14 usage is still low. aws-news.com/article/2025...
- Reposted by Luc van DonkersgoedAWS launches flat-rate pricing plans for CloudFront that combine website delivery, security, and DNS services with no overage charges across four tiers from free to $1,000/month.
- Flat-rate pricing in AWS - that's a BIG departure from pay-per-use for all the things! Products included in the plan are CloudFront distros and functions, WAF, DDoS protection, Route53 and a few others. Pricing: Free ($0), Pro ($15), Business ($200), and Premium ($1,000). Of course, limits apply.
- A proper Pre:Invent release! Amazon Managed Airflow (MWAA) now has a serverless run mode. No UI, pay-per-use, and immediately available in 15 regions. aws-news.com/article/2025...
- Busy day for AWS announcements, with over 15 releases spanning services like Redshift, Backup, ECS, Route53, and EC2 Image Builder! Want the most important updates right in your inbox? Subscribe to the Daily Digest at aws-news.com?showSubscrib... 💌 Reposts and shares are ❤️
- I'm thrilled to welcome BlueArch.io as an AWS News Silver sponsor for six full months! BlueArch offers a powerful CLI FinOps tool for AWS environments. Go check them out!
- It's only "shit I need to order AWS News stickers" days until Re:Invent 2025!
- AWS Lambda provisioned mode for SQS is here! Same principle as provisioned mode for Kafka, but 20x (!) cheaper - making it a viable solution for high-volume, near-realtime event processing. aws-news.com/article/2025...
- I've always had a soft spot for network tech, and QUIC is quite nifty. Love seeing native support for QUIC in NLB. aws-news.com/article/2025...
- BIG shoutout to @honeycomb.io. I already loved their product for human root cause analysis, but their MCP server is next level shit. I configured it in Cursor, gave a single command, and the agent found and fixed the error in a minute. HUGE timesaver!
- JWT auth support in AWS ALBs? Best Pre:Invent release so far! aws-news.com/article/2025...
- Welcome to the AWS Heroes program Dimple, Rola, and Vivek! Hope to see you at Re:Invent! aws-news.com/article/2025...
- It's only three weeks until Re:Invent 2025! This means peak season for the AWS News Feed 📈 Do you want to support the best AWS news tracker and get your brand in front of 10s of thousands of highly engaged AWS enthusiasts? I still have Silver sponsor slots available for $500 / month!
- Reposted by Luc van DonkersgoedAWS introduces a new planning tool called AWS Capabilities by Region that helps developers explore, compare, and discover service availability and features across different AWS Regions interactively.
- AWS just launched "AWS Capabilities by Region" - arguably one of their best named products in years. It interactively shows which services and APIs are available, planned, and NOT planned for a region. A very welcome addition to service transparency! aws-news.com/article/2025...
- Reposted by Luc van DonkersgoedAmazon Cognito simplifies M2M authentication pricing by removing the app client price dimension, allowing customers to only pay for successful token requests.
- This makes me very happy! The $6 per month per app client is GONE. Immediately. This was a cost control which actively disincentivized good architecture and I'm glad they removed it. aws-news.com/article/2025...
- Holy cow 🐮 The AWS News Feed had more visitors in October 2025 than during Re:Invent 2024! We've also doubled the visitor count year-over-year 😳 The next two months are going to be insane!
- Big day for AWS releases, which is no surprise with just over one month until Re:Invent 2025.
- OpenTelemetry is awesome, and AWS knows it. The X-Ray SDKs and Deamon are now deprecated in favor of modern, open standards. I hope to see many more OTel features released this Re:Invent! aws-news.com/article/2025...
- SQS: I now support 1MiB messages! Kinesis: hold my beer (Kinesis now supports 10MiB record sizes) aws-news.com/article/2025...
- My conference season is wrapped! I loved speaking in Utrecht, Timisoara, Gothenburg, Manchester and many other places this year. While I won't come to a stage near you anytime soon, I'm happy that the awesome team at AWS Comsum Manchester made the recording available on YouTube. Check it out below!
