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Eric Hammond @esh.dev · 17/09/2026

This is probably the most important and valuable set of improvements and features AWS has made for new customers in over a decade. The team is solving some incredibly challenging problems to make AWS a good choice once again for hobbyists and small casual teams. aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aw... #aws

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AWS reimagines the getting started experience | Amazon Web Services

AWS has reimagined the getting started experience with smart and sensible defaults to help developers get started fast so that they can focus on building. New customers can sign up and get started rig...

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Eric Hammond @esh.dev · 04/04/2026

so, I just finished switching all 46 AWS accounts from CloudWatch Alarms to AWS Budgets, which seems to be free (today) for monitoring and alerts.

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Eric Hammond @esh.dev · 04/04/2026

and then AWS does not (any longer?) apply the free tier to each individual account in an AWS organization, and you notice that $0.10 (per CloudWatch Alarm per month) * 10 (alarms) * 12 (months) * 46 (accounts) = $552 per year!

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Eric Hammond @esh.dev · 04/04/2026

$0.10 per CloudWatch Alarm doesn't seem like a lot, especially when the Free Tier says you get 10 alarms free, UNTIL you automatically add 10 billing alarms to each new AWS account you create, and you keep adding accounts over the decades until you have 46 AWS accounts,

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Eric Hammond @esh.dev · 24/02/2026

One year of Claude Code releases analyzing and visualizing the cadence alestic.github.io/claude-code-... built with Claude Code and Opus 4.6 source code: github.com/alestic/clau... #claudecode #ai

Table compares release cadence across four major version series. The changelog entries/week column circled in orange shows a roughly 12x increase over the course of a year — from 6.6 in version 0.2 (Feb 2025) to 14.5 in 1.0, 21.6 in 2.0, and 81.9 in 2.1 (Jan 2026).

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Eric Hammond @esh.dev · 01/01/2026

Did Claude Code auto /compact get fast and actually good when I wasn't looking? I've now had multiple sessions where Claude Code worked smoothly across multiple auto-compact operations, and I barely noticed they happened. If I can trust this, it changes everything.

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Eric Hammond @esh.dev · 03/12/2025

I even used to help companies get up to speed on AWS when AWS did not offer direct support to customers in any way (hard to imagine today). At one point AWS even sent a customer to me when the customer needed urgent help with an AWS project.

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Eric Hammond @esh.dev · 03/12/2025

I tend to pitch in for a while when I see a vacuum in a growing space, and then others take over and do a better job, so I get to retire and look for other opportunities to help.

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Eric Hammond @esh.dev · 01/12/2025

Image credits: screenshots from the AWS #reInvent innovation session INV212: "Migrate, modernize, and move your business into the AI era" with Dr. Asa Kalavade, VP, Migration & Modernization

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Eric Hammond @esh.dev · 01/12/2025

For example, do you have various coding projects that use the same programming language in inconsistent ways, and want to clean them up to conform to a specific set of central standards? I suspect that may be a lot easier with the help of AWS Transform custom. I'm excited to try it.

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Eric Hammond @esh.dev · 01/12/2025

And, AWS Transform custom should be one of those general purpose frameworks that can be used for things AWS never imagined, far beyond "upgrading software versions".

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Eric Hammond @esh.dev · 01/12/2025

Maybe I can finally upgrade that AWS Lambda function running Node 0.10 since 2014. #AWS #reInvent

Title: How the custom transformation agent works

Flow diagram showing:

Legacy code, framework, architecture, and application → AWS TRANSFORM → Modernized code, framework, architecture, and application

Below: A circular process with 4 steps:
DEFINE - (laptop with code icon)
EXECUTE - (laptop with grid icon)
VERIFY - (laptop with document icon)
LEARN & IMPROVE - (laptop with magnifying glass icon)
Then loops back to DEFINE

Note: CLI + web console for monitoring campaigns at scale

Title: Pre-configured transformations available out of the box
Six boxes showing:
- Java runtime version upgrades
- Python runtime version upgrades
- Node.js runtime version upgrades
- AWS SDK for Java upgrades (v1 to v2)
- AWS SDK for Python upgrades (boto2 to boto3)
- AWS SDK for JavaScript upgrades (v2 to v3)

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Eric Hammond @esh.dev · 01/12/2025

If you've been running systems for more than a couple years, you've got legacy code that probably needs to be upgraded, refreshed, or refactored. "AWS Transform custom" (yes, the name is lowercase, because AWS thrives on naming inconsistencies) makes some pretty exciting claims.

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Eric Hammond @esh.dev · 01/12/2025

$100,000 to team #000080 (Navy Blue) in the AWS Road to re:Invent hackathon (plus other prizes)! AWS #reInvent

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Eric Hammond @esh.dev · 01/12/2025

Judges have arrived: Jeff Barr and Swami Sivasubramanian

Jeff Barr and Swami Sivasubramanian on stage

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Eric Hammond @esh.dev · 01/12/2025

"Judging will begin shortly" Road to re:Invent AWS #reInvent

Montage of the hackathon teams on the busses.

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Eric Hammond @esh.dev · 01/12/2025

My room has higher CO2 ppm coming out of the ventilation than the last couple years. Perhaps they are recirculating more and bringing in less fresh air. (Only one data point. Should not be taken as a hotel/casino-wide fact.)

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Eric Hammond @esh.dev · 30/11/2025

@brookejamieson.bsky.social and team actually pulled this together! I remember when it was just a dream. The Road to re:Invent hackathon buses are real and have started their journey to AWS #reInvent. reinvent.awslivestream.com/r2r/live/

Giant bus with "Road to re:Invent" on the side, pulling onto the road

Giant bus with "Road to re:Invent" on the side, driving away.

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Eric Hammond @esh.dev · 30/11/2025

How it's going AWS #reInvent chalk wall

Long black wall, filled with hand written messages, names of companies, organizations, projects, technologies, and more, with "AWS re:Invent" printed in the middle. A number of re:Invent attendees busy adding their personal touches in chalk.

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Eric Hammond @esh.dev · 30/11/2025

How it started AWS #reInvent chalk wall

Long black wall, mostly blank, with "AWS re:Invent" printed in the middle. Only one person visible

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Eric Hammond @esh.dev · 30/11/2025

I've been attending AWS re:Invent since the first one in 2012. E Every year I notice changes as the organizers observe things they can improve from the previous year. There should be no security bottleneck at Venetian check-in and badge pickup this year. AWS #reInvent

Security lanes as far as the eye can see, with security personnel (human and canine). Currently empty, waiting for the crowds to arrive.

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Eric Hammond @esh.dev · 30/11/2025

I told the fellow guarding the chalk board that it is now open. AWS #reInvent 2025

Large black wall with "AWS re:Invent" printed on it. "@esh.dev" written in chalk inside an "e".

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Eric Johnson @edjgeek.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Here is some Friday pre:Invent fun... I am doing a session on Wednesday that is NOT in the catalog, but it will be. You will NOT want to miss this. Look for me - 10:30 AM (Vegas Time) In the Mandalay Bay.

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Eric Hammond @esh.dev · 26/10/2025

Sometimes it's hard to wait for Claude Code to do in 30 minutes what would only take me 3 days.

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Eric Hammond @esh.dev · 04/09/2025

The abc CLI project has been enhanced with a new OpenAI plugin for use with, say, GPT-5. Website: getabc.sh GitHub: github.com/alestic/abc abc now supports: - Anthropic (Claude models) - OpenAI (GPT models) - AWS Bedrock (Claude, Nova, etc)

getabc.sh

abc - AI bash/zsh/tcsh Command

abc is a command line tool to convert natural language instructions into shell commands and place on the next shell prompt

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Kiro @kiro.dev · 14/07/2025

This is Kiro - the AI IDE that works on your messy, real-world projects. Other AI tools lose context when projects get complex. Kiro gives you spec-driven development that scales beyond prototypes. Preview: kiro.dev/blog/introducing-kiro/?trk=6b579e54-2920-4e24-a25b-d3c887a6ffdf&sc_channel=sm

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Luc van Donkersgoed @lucvandonkersgoed.com · 22/07/2025

I did not have a new SQS Queue type on my bingo card, but here we are and they're very cool. SQS Fair Queues automatically balance multiple tenants (identified by their MessageGroupID), filtering out noisy neighbors. Love it when foundational services keep improving! aws-news.com/article/2025...

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Building resilient multi-tenant systems with Amazon SQS fair queues

Amazon SQS fair queues help mitigate noisy neighbor impacts in multi-tenant systems by automatically prioritizing message delivery across tenants, maintain...

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Eric Hammond @esh.dev · 01/06/2025

I'm tired of being "absolutely right". Tell me when I'm wrong. Tell me when I forgot to take something into account. Tell me when I could consider another option. #ai #development

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Eric Hammond @esh.dev · 27/03/2025

Other people get good results from other tools including Roo, Cursor, Windsurf, AWS Q Developer, etc. but this list also changes every week.

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Eric Hammond @esh.dev · 27/03/2025

I should also mention that my projects are not cost sensitive, so I'm focused on results, not price.

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Eric Hammond @esh.dev · 27/03/2025

This list will be out of date in a couple weeks, if not sooner.

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Eric Hammond @esh.dev · 27/03/2025

Here's a list of what I use today to build software and do tasks, in rough order of what I wouldn't want to give up: Claude Code Cline Claude (web) ChatGPT (web) llm (from Simon Willison) aider abc-cli (by me) other tools I write using LLM APIs GitHub Copilot

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Eric Hammond @esh.dev · 26/03/2025

In fact, I'm thrilled I'm able to accomplish so much more so much faster, and I'm looking forward to when I'll be able to check even more things off my list of todos, and automate even more advanced things in my life that I'd never considered before.

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Eric Hammond @esh.dev · 26/03/2025

I'm not as afraid of these latest astounding abstractions and incredible advances in coding tools as perhaps somebody who just started developing software.

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Eric Hammond @esh.dev · 26/03/2025

not to mention the advances in operating systems, improvements in user interfaces, windowing systems, IDEs, connectivity to APIs over the Internet, and abstracting the very hardware into the cloud,

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Eric Hammond @esh.dev · 26/03/2025

and at every step using more abstractions and third party packages that solve so many challenges I no longer have to worry about,

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Eric Hammond @esh.dev · 26/03/2025

to using Perl, which figured out what I mean without having to spell it all out in painful detail,

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Eric Hammond @esh.dev · 26/03/2025

to object oriented programming in C++, which generated the lower level C code,

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Eric Hammond @esh.dev · 26/03/2025

to writing programs in C, which generated the assembly using an easier abstraction,

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Eric Hammond @esh.dev · 26/03/2025

to typing assembly language instructions and having an assembler figure out the machine code for me,

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Eric Hammond @esh.dev · 26/03/2025

from manually figuring out the numerical values of each byte of the desired machine code and entering them into the computer,

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Eric Hammond @esh.dev · 26/03/2025

Having personally experienced coding

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Ross Barich @rossbarich.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Calling all university students: if you're passionate about cloud technologies and skilled in community building: 🚀 Apply to be an AWS Cloud Club Captain 🚀 Learn more here, applications close March 6 👇 go.aws/4kbZwnT

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Join the AWS Student Hub, a community for 18+ students interested in learning AWS technologies and connecting with the global AWS Cloud Club program.

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Brooke Jamieson @brookejamieson.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Each AI model needs its own prompting approach - like how different makeup brushes are designed for specific tasks. You wouldn't use an eyeliner brush for blush! I've turned my Nova experiments into a field guide with templates, patterns & examples you can use today!

Amazon nova prompt engineering on AWS: a field guide by Brooke

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