Jeff Barr

Happy to help. Hope you had a good time!

Good morning @fastmail.com - was there a subtle change in the UI of your Android app last week? It is now a lot harder to get to the "select multiple messages" mode.

Reading Code is an Essential Skill Over the last couple of months I have spoken about “next generation software development” to audiences in Bangkok, Bangalore, and Tokyo…

Reading Code is an Essential Skill:

medium.com/@nextjeff/re...

Introducing the AWS Trust Center | Amazon Web Services We’re launching the AWS Trust Center, a new online resource that shares how we approach securing your assets in the cloud. The AWS Trust Center is a window into our security practices, compliance prog...

The #AWS Trust Center is your online resource that will help you to learn more the approach we take to securing your cloud assets. You will find documentation & tools that address every level from the ground up: data centers, cloud infrastructure, and cloud services.

aws.amazon.com/blogs/securi...

AWS Documentation update — progress, challenges, and what’s next for 2025 | Amazon Web Services WS has been making significant improvements to their documentation through content restructuring, increased code samples, enhanced website navigation, and AI integration, while maintaining their commi...

Here's a quick article to provide an update on AWS Documentation progress -- sharing details about recent content refactoring, website updates, new content types, and a peek at how we're leveraging AI. I'll follow up soon with a similar update about the SDKs and CLI! 😎
aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws-in...

Load management is all around us - from restaurants handling the lunch rush to cloud systems balancing millions of requests. Mike Haken’s latest Builders' Library article shows how the principles never change: detect early, adapt quickly, degrade gracefully. aws.amazon.com/builders-lib...

🦀 The Crabby Lambda Book is Back! New Release & CDK Magic! Lots of fixes, using the new Cargo-Lambda file structure, a new appendix on how to use CDK

For a deeper dive into all the changes (and how to download the new version), check out our newsletter:

news.rust-lambda.com/p/crabby-lam...

I spent a few minutes using the Amazon Nova Canvas model via the Bedrock console to create some images reminiscent of an iconic scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

My basic prompt was "an ape standing up, throwing a bone up to the sky. There's a bright sun in the background, and also a spaceship."

I made a contribution, how do I get access to the models?

Can we share it?

Announcing the new AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region | Amazon Web Services AWS launches Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region with 3 Availability Zones, accelerating cloud adoption. Strategically located to meet data residency needs, it drives innovation across industries. Early AW...

The #AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region is now open -- learn more at aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/an... .

This is our 14th region in Asia Pacific and our 35th globally, with 5 more regions in the works.

And that’s a wrap! | Amazon Web Services After 20 years, and 3283 posts adding up to 1,577,106 words I am wrapping up my time as the lead blogger on the AWS News Blog. It has been a privilege to be able to “live in the future” and to get to ...

After 20 years as lead blogger on the #AWS News Blog, I am going to return to my builder roots and spend more time with fewer AWS services. Here's my announcement:

And that's a wrap! - aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/an...

My first AWS re:Invent selfie with @jeffbarr.bsky.social !

As the sun sets (all too early during the Seattle winter), I am wrapping up my hashtag#AWS News blogging for re:Invent 2024.

Check out the very cool #AWS Region Comparison tool at
region-comparison.aws.com .

Select two regions and you will see which services, APIs, EC2 instance types, and DB engines differ with respect to availability.

Source is available; link at bottom!

Gravity++

It is open source, go for it!

Two people having a meeting across a desk.

If you are heading to #AWS re:Invent and need to set up a private meeting with me, another AWS person, a community member, or another attendee, I strongly recommend that you check our PeerTalk at reinvent.awsevents.com/peertalk/ .

Animated GIF of StorageBrowser for Amazon S3 - a simple UI for data stored in Amazon S3.

A new open source #AWS Amplify component - StorageBrowser for Amazon S3:

What's New: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...

Repo: github.com/aws-amplify/...

Sample App: github.com/reesscot/nex...

AWS Lambda turns ten – looking back and looking ahead - aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aw...

Good idea Justin. Let me see what I can do.

I'm now https://bsky.app/profile/jeff-barr.com . Thanks for the invite!