Aidan W Steele

I try to tweet novel things about AWS.“Shit-poster extraordinaire” according to @LastWeekInAWS. He/him. AWS Serverless Hero

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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.

https://t.co/TQf8S3pekt

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When I verify ownership of a domain in AWS SES, that should let me send an email to *@${domain} while in the sandbox.

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@VB_tins Looks similar to my first attempt two months ago. For bread it tasted pretty good. For focaccia it was underwhelming. Will have to try again soon

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@pinskinator @benkershner I’ve seen what you people do to UUIDs.. have you no shame?

https://t.co/0EJDRyZ1G1

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@mattgillard @QuinnyPig I finally shipped it! (Well, my partner did, but she refuses to take credit for anything)

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@QuinnyPig @kmcquade3 @forrestbrazeal During that time I was finding really absurd corners of VPCs, e.g. this mess https://t.co/3vAGkglNKa

[Aidan W Steele @__steele]

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.

https://t.co/TQf8S3pekt

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@QuinnyPig @kmcquade3 @forrestbrazeal I think they ended up bringing in the guy who wrote the primary HTTP/3 implementation in Go to clean up my steaming pile of code. I can only imagine what he thought when he saw the absurd connections-in-streams-in-godknowswhat I was building.

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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.

https://t.co/XcCERy2kCC

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@QuinnyPig @github @vercel I’d been meaning to get around to doing exactly this. Very nice work!

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@astuyve If anyone is looking for an AWS Hero with a more entertaining accent than AJ, I’m right here (albeit on the wrong side of the Pacific Ocean, clearly)

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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.

https://t.co/0EJDRyZ1G1

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@thdxr I’ve started creating Terraform providers for services that don’t have them. Returns some sanity.

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@rafalwilinski @jeffbarr Isn’t that Bedrock Agent Core runtime? It’s basically 8 hour Lambda

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Thank you for fixing this, AWS https://t.co/fMZM1UKdv8

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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.

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AI needs a better intuition for avoiding "expensive" operations.

It's annoying to see it call `takes-5-minutes | tail 10` and then decide immediately thereafter to run `takes-5-minutes > /tmp/log.txt` and read it.

What can I tweak to make it consistently skip the first step?

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Someone at AWS: "How do we pump up our Amazon Q numbers?"

Someone else at AWS: "How about a second button?"

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New frustration just dropped: AWS won't let me run even one t4g.nano in us-west-2.

This account has spent a few hundred bucks in the past few months. I've had EC2 instances running in ap-southeast-2 for months.

How can I get out of this service quota naughty corner?

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Today's frustration: my Lambda functions are limited to 3008 MB of RAM. I've filed a case in both dev and prod accounts.

Mind you, my "please enable S3 transfer acceleration" case is still unassigned, 8 days later.

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@michael_timbs You’re telling me now for the first time