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Matteo Depascale @matteodepascale.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Amazon Cognito now lets you bring your own client secrets and rotate them without downtime. Before: one secret, no rotation, delete the whole client to change it. Now: proper lifecycle management. Finally. 1/4

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Matteo Depascale @matteodepascale.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

🚀 Big news for #Kubernetes users! Amazon EKS Node Monitoring Agent is now OPEN SOURCE! No more SSHing into nodes to debug pod failures. The EKS Node Monitoring Agent is now available on GitHub for everyone. #AWS #Kubernetes 1/5

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Matteo Depascale @matteodepascale.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Amazon loop interviews ≠ "just more interviews." 3-5 hours. Back-to-back. Every round tests Leadership Principles — even technical ones. Here's what actually happens 🧵 1/6

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Matteo Depascale @matteodepascale.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Stop struggling with AWS scheduling at scale Still using cron jobs and custom polling loops? There's a better way → Amazon EventBridge Scheduler Here's why you should switch 🧵 #AWS #Serverless 1/8

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Matteo Depascale @matteodepascale.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

"HTTPS everywhere is unnecessary overhead" is a 2010 argument In 2026, it's mostly a myth Here's why 🧵 1/5

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Matteo Depascale @matteodepascale.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Nested virtualization on EC2 is now available on virtual instances, no bare metal required Nitro passes Intel VT-x extensions through 3 layers: L0: AWS/Nitro → L1: Your EC2 (KVM/Hyper-V) → L2: Your nested VMs Supported: C8i, M8i, R8i. Zero extra cost 🧵 #AWS #EC2 1/4

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Matteo Depascale @matteodepascale.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

You don't need Lambda to filter EventBridge events EventBridge has a dual boolean logic system most people underuse: → Implicit AND across fields → Implicit OR within arrays → Explicit $or for cross-field conditions No filtering code needed 1/4

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Matteo Depascale @matteodepascale.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

AWS Backup now supports Amazon EKS natively — no agents, no scripts, no third-party tools. One policy. Full cluster state + persistent volumes (EBS, EFS, S3). Cross-region & cross-account copies. Still scripting your own EKS backups? 🤔 #AWS #Kubernetes 1/4

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Matteo Depascale @matteodepascale.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is now on Amazon Bedrock 🚀 Frontier AI at $3/$15/M tokens—near-Opus performance at a price that actually scales. Here's what changed for builders 🧵 #AWS #AI 1/6

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Matteo Depascale @matteodepascale.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

There are 2 types of EventBridge architectures: Source-first → Service A sends events to Service B Bus-first → Domain events flow through buses to consumers Only one scales. Here's why 🧵 1/5

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Matteo Depascale @matteodepascale.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

AWS CloudWatch just dropped Alarm Mute Rules 🔇 The old way: scripts to disable/enable alarms, forgotten re-enables, silent monitoring gaps The new way: scheduled mute windows that auto-expire. Alarms keep evaluating, only actions are suppressed. #AWS #DevOps 1/4

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Matteo Depascale @matteodepascale.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Lambda DLQ vs SQS DLQ — which one should you actually use? Most teams default to Lambda's native DLQ because it's simple. But "simple" has a cost when things break in prod. A thread 🧵 #AWS #Serverless 1/6

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Matteo Depascale @matteodepascale.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

AWS SES just launched Email Validation and it's a game-changer for sender reputation 🎯 The old way: Send first, deal with bounces later ❌ The new way: Validate before sending, prevent bounces entirely ✅ Here's what you need to know 🧵 #AWS #DevOps #CloudComputing 1/5

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Matteo Depascale @matteodepascale.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I failed my first AWS interview after 2 months of prep Completed the full loop for Solutions Architect. Felt great. Stories were "perfect" Then the rejection hit. Hard Here's what went wrong 🧵👇 1/5

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Matteo Depascale @matteodepascale.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

AWS Lambda now has built-in multi-tenant isolation 🔥 No more per-tenant functions. No custom routing. One function, automatic tenant-aware execution environments. Here's what changed 🧵 #AWS #Serverless 1/5

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Matteo Depascale @matteodepascale.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Tired of parsing broken JSON from LLM responses? Amazon Bedrock now supports Structured Outputs define your JSON schema once, get guaranteed schema-compliant responses every time No more retry loops or custom validation logic #AWS #AI 1/4

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Matteo Depascale @matteodepascale.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

🚀 Claude Opus 4.6 just dropped on Amazon Bedrock Anthropic's most intelligent model is now live. Handles complex tasks across dozens of tools, spins up subagents autonomously, works with less oversight. #AWS #AI 1/4

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Matteo Depascale @matteodepascale.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

AWS Console finally shows Account Names in the nav bar 🎉 No more staring at "123456789012" wondering if you're in prod or dev Multi-account managers, this one's for you 🧵 Here's what you need to know: #AWS #DevOps #CloudComputing 1/5

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Matteo Depascale @matteodepascale.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

IAM Identity Center was a single point of failure. Not anymore. Multi-Region support just dropped. Here's what you need to know 🧵 #AWS #IAM #CloudSecurity 1/6

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Matteo Depascale @matteodepascale.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Amazon Cognito FINALLY supports inbound federation Lambda triggers 🎉 You can now intercept SAML/OIDC responses BEFORE they hit your user pool. Transform, truncate, or filter attributes programmatically. Zero IdP changes needed. #AWS #Cognito 1/4

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Matteo Depascale @matteodepascale.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

AWS just dropped UpdateObjectEncryption API 🔥 Change S3 encryption types WITHOUT copying data. No more copy→delete workflows SSE-S3 to SSE-KMS in milliseconds. Any object size, any storage class #AWS #DevOps 1/4

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Matteo Depascale @matteodepascale.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

🚀 AWS just 4x'd payload limits for serverless EventBridge, Lambda (async) & SQS now support 1 MB payloads (up from 256 KB) No more chunking, S3 workarounds, or compression hacks Best part? It's automatic - no action needed #AWS #Serverless 1/5

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Matteo Depascale @matteodepascale.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Kubernetes 1.35 just dropped on Amazon EKS 🚀 The headline feature: In-Place Pod Resource Updates is STABLE → Adjust CPU/memory without Pod restarts → No more recreating pods for vertical scaling This alone is worth the upgrade for stateful workloads #Kubernetes #AWS 1/5

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Matteo Depascale @matteodepascale.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

You don't need AWS Lambda for event integrations. DynamoDB Stream → Lambda → EventBridge → Target ❌ DynamoDB Stream → EventBridge Pipe → Target ✅ Point-to-point, pull-based, ordering preserved. No custom code. #AWS #EventDriven 1/4

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Matteo Depascale @matteodepascale.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I used to create ECR repos manually. Never again. New ECR feature: Push images → repos auto-create with your settings No more pre-provisioning. Faster CI/CD. Less Terraform boilerplate. #AWS #DevOps 1/4

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Matteo Depascale @matteodepascale.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

AWS just shipped a game-changer for IAM debugging 🔥 Before: Only knew the policy TYPE that denied access Now: Get the exact policy ARN instantly No more hunting through dozens of policies to find the culprit. This is huge for debugging SCPs, RCPs, and permission boundaries 1/4

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Matteo Depascale @matteodepascale.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

AWS just dropped EKS Capabilities → fully managed K8s features that run in AWS infra, not your cluster No more patching controllers. No more scaling headaches. Zero cluster overhead. Here's what you get 🧵 #AWS #Kubernetes 1/5

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Matteo Depascale @matteodepascale.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

STOP paying full price for AWS databases 💰 AWS Database Savings Plans just dropped — up to 35% off Commit $/hour over 1 year, no upfront payment, discounts apply automatically Covers: Aurora, RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, DocumentDB, Neptune & more #AWS #Cloud 1/4

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Matteo Depascale @matteodepascale.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

AWS DevOps Agent just dropped in preview 🚀 It's an autonomous agent that investigates incidents like an experienced DevOps engineer would. Works with CloudWatch, Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic, Splunk—no workflow changes needed. #AWS #DevOps 1/5

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Matteo Depascale @matteodepascale.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Multi-account AWS architectures just got simpler Lambda now supports cross-account DynamoDB Streams access. No more replication pipelines. No more duplicate infra. Just set a resource-based policy and trigger Lambda from streams in another account. #aws #serverless 1/4

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Matteo Depascale @matteodepascale.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

AWS European Sovereign Cloud is now live 🇪🇺 Complete operational independence: dedicated infra in Germany, own billing/IAM, zero critical dependencies outside EU Not just another region, it's a fully independent cloud for sovereignty without sacrificing innovation #AWS 1/4

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Matteo Depascale @matteodepascale.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Never worry about AWS quota limits again 🎯 AWS just launched automatic quota management for Service Quotas, and it's FREE ❌ Old way: Manual monitoring → Service interruptions ✅ New way: Auto monitoring → Seamless scaling Game-changer for cloud ops #aws #cloudcomputing 1/4

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Matteo Depascale @matteodepascale.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

AWS just killed long-term access keys with one command: `aws login` Same console sign-in → temporary creds → auto-rotate every 15 min No more static keys sitting in ~/.aws/credentials forever 🔐 #aws #cloudcomputing

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Matteo Depascale @matteodepascale.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

🚨 Big news: I’ve joined @awscloud as a Technical Account Manager! 🚀 Thrilled to tackle cloud challenges, empower customers, and innovate at scale Time to build the future! DM me for cloud chats, collabs, or memes 😎 #AWS #CloudComputing

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Matteo Depascale @matteodepascale.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Nothing replace manual testing (for now) 🥹