I try to tweet novel things about AWS.“Shit-poster extraordinaire” according to @LastWeekInAWS. He/him. AWS Serverless Hero
Melbourne, Australia
- Tweets 12,843
- Following 2,300
- Followers 10,102
- Likes 43,683
Pinned Tweet
This is probably the most delightful thing I have ever read about myself. I love it so much.
@forrestbrazeal: thank you for *getting* me.
Everyone else: read the whole article, it’s great.
newsletter.goodtechthings.co…
8
11
92
Aidan W Steele retweeted
How down is AWS in the middle east? 2027 down. I guess at least they sent an update.
11
22
334
22,378
I very much enjoyed reading this. Glad to read something that isn’t about AI every single day.
Just posted the next entry in the fast-date series! This time, a faster way to convert a timestamp ➜ Hour, Min, Sec.
benjoffe.com/fast-time-of-da…
4
841
CloudWatch supporting org-wide rules to automatically enable VPC flow logs is nice, but the fact that it's limited to CWL log groups as a target is a deal-breaker.
I want S3 destinations. The docs even tease the possibility!
5
11
1,029
Aidan W Steele retweeted
I remember reading about Actually Portable Executables by @jartine and having my jaw drop.
(I even tried to contribute to Cosmopolitan and got Google to sign off on it! That's another fun story)
I tender my submission to the pantheon: Actually Queryable Executables
#sqlite all the way down.
fzakaria.com/2026/08/24/actu…
4
9
65
3,560
I was sitting in the airport and had an idea for a Lambda MicroVM use-case: building Docker images, right from your laptop(ish). So you can do something like this:
docker buildx build --builder lambda --push -t aidansteele/example-image .
github.com/aidansteele/uvm-b…
2
3
17
1,933
What reason is there for only passing through the AWS tags, and not the user-defined tags? This could have been so useful!
aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wha…
5
998
Hypothetical: anyone got a US immigration lawyer they recommend? I want to see if I'm eligible for a visa to work over there. I think an O-1 might be more plausible than an E-3, but I honestly have no idea.
4
7
3,313
AWS IAM Identity Center just launched some functionality that I've wanted to see in AWS for at least 10 years. It's still got some way to go, but it's very promising.
awsteele.com/blog/2026/07/01…
3
9
40
8,258
A fast-follow from my previous tweet: turns out that AWS Lambda MicroVMs are quite flexible. You can run a Kubernetes cluster across them. With multiple pods per MicroVM. So I built a sample project showing how to do just that.
github.com/aidansteele/micro…
6
7
51
5,567
AWS did a great job of documenting the new Lambda MicroVMs, but missed a couple of small things that I personally found interesting - so I wrote some notes.
awsteele.com/blog/2026/06/23…
2
15
70
7,068
This looks really cool. It’s nice to see some solid releases from AWS - especially something that’s not just for AI. aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/run…
1
4
21
1,583
CloudTrail Lake is deprecated. We’re told to use CloudWatch instead. Only problem is it’s not very good (yet). The service, docs, whole experience need a lot of work.
awsteele.com/blog/2026/06/19…
2
6
860
S3 Annotations: now your objects can have objects.
aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ama…
2
3
12
588
When I verify ownership of a domain in AWS SES, that should let me send an email to *@${domain} while in the sandbox.
3
371
I think I’ve built the first AI-native fax service.
I think there’s a good chance it might remain the only AI-native fax service, because the intersection of people who care about those two things might round to zero.
awsteele.com/blog/2026/04/19…
1
2
13
938
I noticed a pattern in my AWS Step Function executes that were triggered by an EventBridge schedule, so here's a blog post about it.
awsteele.com/blog/2026/04/01…
25
2,492
Thank you for fixing this, AWS aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wha…
It's frustrating that CloudFront signed URLs only support SHA-1, and KMS only supports newer algorithms. It seems there's no way to do signed URLs without having to store key material.
It's even more annoying that my account can't just use S3 transfer acceleration instead.
1
26
9,210