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@awscloud.bsky.social : Hey, here's a system that allows you to deploy a bunch of accounts very easily!

Also AWS: BTW, all those new accounts need to have Lambda quota increases manually done or the automated pipeline fails.

Man, GCP is going to lose half its annual revenue when they reverse this charge.

My To-do list is being thwarted by my eye doctor. They sent me a text to remind me to make an appointment. Instead of just letting me reply to the text to get a few options, they make me call them.

The problem: They aren't answering the phone.

There is no other way to make an appointment.

If the answer is Kubernetes, then no one really did their due diligence on the question.

And so continues the stupidity:

Talk about a cheap date

Hey, at least you're making progress. Do your best and ping friends that can help.

You are 100% spot on. I have been using Claude for about a year to refine my shitposting game. Sometimes you just need 20 puns about agentic systems to make the parts of your joke come truly alive.

or maybe like 3 beers. I don't know I'm terrible at it.

I met my woman in a PR about a race condition. Call that semaphore-play

This is perfect and we are truly blessed.

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"What were her results?"

You stupid simple child, Linda doesn’t bring results, she brings *vibes*. The kind of vibes that say “I gave up integrity for proximity to power and all I got was this Slack workspace full of lawsuits.”

Ah, yes, the classic AWS conundrum of their instance catalog being more of a wish list than an inventory.

GitHub - awslabs/mcp: AWS MCP Servers — helping you get the most out of AWS, wherever you use MCP. AWS MCP Servers — helping you get the most out of AWS, wherever you use MCP. - awslabs/mcp

github.com/awslabs/mcp?...

So this is a collection of containers that are MCP servers that handle AWS-specific tasks like searching docs, running lambdas, or creating diagrams. I've barely played with it, and it's not 100% yet, but what a great resource.

GitHub - danshardware/OpenHandsMCP: MCP Server for running openhands MCP Server for running openhands. Contribute to danshardware/OpenHandsMCP development by creating an account on GitHub.

Yo dawg, I heard you like to AI code while you AI code, so I made this MCP Server that lets you run OpenHands from your GenAI workflow.

(It's a work in progress, so please feel free to modify and send PRs)

github.com/danshardware...

Nice! I'm honestly surprised that Anthropic isn't giving away the razor to sell the blades.

I've been using OpenHands for a similar function and been getting great results with that. Currently working on an MCP server for it so I can offload coding tasks to a specialized system design for it.

This is a nice addition: MCP Lambda example: community.aws/content/2s44...

Which is annoying enough, but when you add that they don't even operate the same, now it's just frustrating.

Example: if you have an old parameter in a `deploy` operation that isn't used, it's silently discarded. The the `create-change-set` operation, it's a fatal error.

Create change set:

aws cloudformation create-change-set --stack-name blah --template-body blah.yaml --change-set-name "blah" --tags Key=CostCenter,Value=jank --parameters file://params.json

Deploy:

aws cloudformation deploy --stack-name blah --template-file blah.yml --parameter-overrides file://params.json --tags "CostCenter=jank"

I don't want anyone to think that I don't like CloudFormation; I don't, I love it.

HOWEVER

Wow, is the CLI just wonky. Example follows

Also I did not realize that you were part of the team releasing this, so I would like to add that ACM is absolutely one of my favorite features in AWS. I have spent a lot of time automating certificate jank for clients, and it's so simple and fast on ACM compared to other CAs.

That part is great. Love it.

Paying a yearly fee so that I get an AWS event when it's time to renew would be nice, and for any system of scale that needs that it's homeopathic amounts of money. However, the price point just seems.... weird.

Shitposting aside, my honest opinion is that

1. This type of Cert consist of infra, math that takes milliseconds, and a few DNS lookups.
2. AWS is already generating them for services that scale down to $0, just not letting you see the private key.
3. Several other registrars offer this for $0

I guess that's slightly better. For a random number.

AWS Certificate Manager introduces exportable public SSL/TLS certificates to use anywhere | Amazon Web Services You can now use AWS Certificate Manager to issue exportable public certificates for your AWS, hybrid, or multicloud workloads that require secure TLS traffic termination.

Wow, exportable ACM certs! I can finally get rid of any remaining jank using LetsEncrypt!

Oh. It's $15 per FQDN on the cert and $149 per wildcard.

Every 90 days.

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New to me: automatetheboringstuff.com

Great tutorials on data extraction and duct-taping non-optimized media together.

I'm not sure it's an issue of not grasping it nor them being "stupid". I think they are trying to manipulate the story to seem like they are victims. Ultimately, they want to be a secret army with protections. It's our job to point out that we don't want them at all.