Paul Colmer @ AWS ☁️🛰️🚀🇦🇺

🌍 Democratizing sustainable tech
👨‍🎓 15 AWS Certs
🎨 AWS Senior Tech Trainer & Leader - Generative AI & ML
🔮Creative Storyteller, Futurist, and Comedian

[Paul Colmer @ AWS ☁️🛰️🚀🇦🇺 @DigitalColmer]

😍 G'day Beatiful People...I am super excited to announce that I have started an AI newsletter...It had over 100 subscribers in just the first hour alone 🎉

PostSmith Chapter 1: From Musician to Agentic Orchestrator using Kiro & AgentCore

https://t.co/I72FArzO8d

I'll be featuring this journey at the AWS Public Sector Symposium later this week to demonstrate Kiro.

Video is courtesy of @Grok Imagine. Honest feedback on the newsletter Grok?

This newsletter will chronicle my agentic journey with my latest agentic invention called PostSmith and starts with the story of the Trend Scout agent...🚀

It explores how years of composing, orchestrating and producing music surprisingly prepared me for building production-grade AI agents with Kiro and AgentCore.

You’ll get a taste of the purpose (helping students ship real agentic systems at scale), the unexpected value that emerged, and a few hard-won learnings from turning a clear vision into a working prototype...all shared in my AWS courses and at conferences.

No spoilers. Just enough to spark curiosity... 🤔

If you’re building (or wrestling with) agent orchestration right now, this one’s for you.

Drop a comment and tell me what part of the agent journey is currently keeping you up at night.

At Digital Colmer....newslettering off... 📺

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#TheDigitalCoach #AWS #GenerativeAI

Cowritten with Gen AI... 😎

[Paul Colmer @ AWS ☁️🛰️🚀🇦🇺 @DigitalColmer]

😍 Whoa...just as things couldn't get any more wild. AWS Transform can convert application code from Azure SDK to AWS SDK...🤯

The AWS Transform .NET modernization agent identifies Azure service code and converts it to equivalent AWS service code. For example, an Azure Functions serverless function that uses Azure Cosmos DB can be converted to an AWS Lambda function that uses Amazon DynamoDB.

This means the barrier to migrating away from one cloud to another just got lower. And that barrier will continue to drop.

Love the Gen AI video below. Let me know in the comments 👇

🎤 Prompt Drop
This trainer is making animal balloons. He take an Azure SDK balloon and transforms it into an AWS SDK balloon. Make it fun, humourous but with no talking. In the style of a mime sketch, with quirky mime music.

https://t.co/mrylSMduAv

[Paul Colmer @ AWS ☁️🛰️🚀🇦🇺 @DigitalColmer]

@elonmusk About time....love your work...😍

[Paul Colmer @ AWS ☁️🛰️🚀🇦🇺 @DigitalColmer]

@Scobleizer Wow... beautiful note and thanks for sharing Robert...😍

[Paul Colmer @ AWS ☁️🛰️🚀🇦🇺 @DigitalColmer]

🤔 What do you when your @Qantas flight is cancelled due to the Sydney security strikes?

You visit @BrewingDrop in Botany Bay and have the best sours in Australia and catch a later flight...of course...😂

Have an awesome weekend...😍

🎤 Prompt Drop using @grok Imagine

Scene 1: This man has a blended UK and Australian accent. There is a bustling crowd of weekend drinkers behind him dressed in colourful craft beer styled clothes. He says "Cheers." Causally sips his sour beer and walks excitedly to a Qantas 737-800.

Scene 2: He walks up the stairs, turns around and says "Enjoy the weekend" and waves goodbye. He says nothing else. Cinematic, fun and compelling.

[Paul Colmer @ AWS ☁️🛰️🚀🇦🇺 @DigitalColmer]

@Scobleizer @aelluswamy Now I am really excited. I have an original first of the boat in Australia Tesla Model 3 SR+ and I can't wait to get my hands on...or is it hands off...the Lite version...😂

[Paul Colmer @ AWS ☁️🛰️🚀🇦🇺 @DigitalColmer]

Good morning Sydney 😍

[Paul Colmer @ AWS ☁️🛰️🚀🇦🇺 @DigitalColmer]

@Kristennetten I can't wait to see Cybercab in Brisbane....we have the Olympics in 2032...sounds like a perfect way to travel between events @elonmusk 🙏

[Paul Colmer @ AWS ☁️🛰️🚀🇦🇺 @DigitalColmer]

@Scobleizer @JoeTegtmeyer Potentially Nvidia or Amazon...@grok can you confirm?

[Paul Colmer @ AWS ☁️🛰️🚀🇦🇺 @DigitalColmer]

😍 G'day Beautiful People...Kiro, Claude Code, Codex and Cursor all call the same features by different names. So I mapped them on one page. That's a world first...🚀

Thank you to my wonderful customers today for making me realise the value of this cheat sheet...🙏

The royalty cheque is in the post...😂

Steering files or CLAUDE.md? Powers or plugins? Specs or plan mode?

If you build, teach or just simply want to learn more...this cheat sheet is like your Google translater...helping you convert the terms between the different tools. Perfect for me...🎉

If you love this PDF, please save the post, like, comment, repost and follow...but necessarily in that order...😂

The key highlights:

📄 One-page cheat sheet attached below.

🧭 Steering, skills, powers, specs, hooks and agents side by side

🔌 MCP, slash commands and autonomy modes

🖥️ CLI, IDE, cloud and CI options for each tool

✅ Every name checked against the official docs this week

Only Kiro currently ships a full spec workflow out of the box. The others lean on plan mode.

Quick one for the comments...which one is your daily driver? 👇

🟣 Kiro
🟠 Claude Code
🟢 Codex
⚫ Cursor
🤹 All of them, depending on the day

Drop your emoji below 👇

That's it. Enjoy. I'm off to help my customer learn more about Generative AI development...today we cover AgentCore...😍

At Digital Colmer…cheat sheeting off…📺

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#TheDigitalCoach #AWS #AgenticAI

Cowritten with GenAI...😎

[Paul Colmer @ AWS ☁️🛰️🚀🇦🇺 @DigitalColmer]

😍 G'day Beautiful People...if you lead, build, or teach Generative AI on AWS… this week's handout has a new executive look...🚀

This is based on valuable feedback from some awesome people...and I use it to stay current...🙏

Original post is 👇
https://t.co/3FsOam4twC

Page one is now a one page executive summary of the top 5 releases, so a busy practitioner or leader gets the whole week in two minutes, and every item points to its technical deep dive further down on page 2 onwards.

That means one PDF works for the boardroom and the build team. Execs and TLDR fans read page one, builders flip to their page, and nobody has to translate...🎉

📄 This week's AWS Gen AI and Agentic Weekly is attached below.

🧠 Agent memory now priced by what your agents actually use

🗂️ Agent registry with owners and review status

🤖 Coding agents that build models on SageMaker AI

🎬 Video turned into searchable notes with Pegasus 1.5

Now, a confession. I'm testing some AWS stand up material for re:Invent this year, and I need an honest crowd. Here's one:

"I teach least privilege to all of my students. I. only give people the access they need. My wife's run that policy on me for twenty years. I've got read only access to the TV remote and an explicit deny on too many drinks at our local tavern."

Would this get a laugh in Vegas? Tell me which one and why 👇

😂 Ship it to Vegas
🙂 Needs polish
😬 Keep your day job

That's it. Enjoy. I'm off to help more customers learn...this week in Sydney...😎

At Digital Colmer...stand-up testing off...📺

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#TheDigitalCoach #AWS #GenerativeAI

Cowritten with GenAI...😎

[Paul Colmer @ AWS ☁️🛰️🚀🇦🇺 @DigitalColmer]

@Kristennetten Woohoo...where they based in Brisbane, Australia? 😂

@Grok Any official news?

[Paul Colmer @ AWS ☁️🛰️🚀🇦🇺 @DigitalColmer]

@BrianRoemmele Is this cost cutting gone mad. Whatever happened to innovation and attention to detail...😢

[Paul Colmer @ AWS ☁️🛰️🚀🇦🇺 @DigitalColmer]

@Jason @bot @XMoney 😂

[Paul Colmer @ AWS ☁️🛰️🚀🇦🇺 @DigitalColmer]

@icreatelife The Digital Coach... that's posh English for professional nerd...😂

[Paul Colmer @ AWS ☁️🛰️🚀🇦🇺 @DigitalColmer]

😍 G'day Beautiful People...this week's Amazon Bedrock and agentic AI handout is how you stay ahead of the student who reads it before breakfast...😂

I turned the What's New firehose into a pocket brief you can save, share, and use before the next class. Let's unpack the hits...🤔

📄 Scannable handout for builders and executives is attached below.

Quick contrast...

⚡ Haiku 5.5 = the cheap fast tier for high-volume jobs… lots of them at once, without lighting the bill on fire.

🎙️ Nova 2.5 Sonic = voice agents that reason and finish the task out loud… not another chatbot that only types.

🔐 Permission-aware RAG = Quick and Bedrock Knowledge Bases check document access live per question… so the model never sees what the user cannot open.

Haiku for volume. Sonic for voice. Live permission checks so the clever answer is still the allowed one. The rest of the digest is in the same PDF if you want Strands Box and the other also-worth hits.

Quick one... which classroom demo do you run first next week? 👇

⚡ Haiku 5.5 on the cost tier
🎙️ Nova 2.5 Sonic voice agents
🔐 Answers that respect document access
📚 The rest of the digest
😅 Be honest... handout first, coffee second

Drop the emoji. Winner gets bragging rights...😎

That's it. Enjoy. I'm off to relax for the weekend.

At Digital Colmer… weekly Gen AI briefing off… 📺

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#TheDigitalCoach #AWS #GenerativeAI

Cowritten with GenAI...😎

[Paul Colmer @ AWS ☁️🛰️🚀🇦🇺 @DigitalColmer]

Just when you thought the humble domino fall couldn't be bettered. BTW - That's a lot of cereal... hope you're hungry...😂

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

I couldn’t believe my eyes

[Paul Colmer @ AWS ☁️🛰️🚀🇦🇺 @DigitalColmer]

@WolfofX Just when you thought the humble domino fall couldn't be bettered. BTW - That's a lot of cereal... hope you hungry...😂

[Paul Colmer @ AWS ☁️🛰️🚀🇦🇺 @DigitalColmer]

@JohnCena @TheSavBananas Well deserved...this is the reward for hard work, persistence and dedication to your craft. 🎉

[Paul Colmer @ AWS ☁️🛰️🚀🇦🇺 @DigitalColmer]

@elonmusk @bot Elon ha some of the most incredible ideas in the world...this is not one of them.

Never share credit card data with anyone human, AI or even your pet dog.

[Paul Colmer @ AWS ☁️🛰️🚀🇦🇺 @DigitalColmer]

@BrianRoemmele @grok @bot Very impressive Grok Bot is clearly revolutionary. I also use Kiro Crew which is also on par...🎉