Weekly news | 2025-06-18

news

• Amazon CEO tells employees that AI will shrink its workforce
• Remote MCP support in Claude Code
• “Localhost tracking” explained. It could cost Meta 32 billion
• Cloudflare’s critical Workers KV due to GCP outage

• AWS:
  • Amazon Nova Sonic adds support for Spanish language
  • API Models open-source
  • AppSync Default Encryption for GraphQL API Caching
  • Bedrock Custom Model Import now supports Qwen models
  • CloudTrail S3 DeleteObjects API
  • Cloud WAN simplifies network operations with Security Group Referencing and enhanced DNS support
  • CloudWatch EBS detailed performance statistics
  • Connect
    • calculated attributes
    • communication limits for Outbound Campaigns
    • Customer Profiles for Travel and Hospitality
    • profile explorer for unified customer views
  • Console Mobile Application CloudWatch Log Insights
  • Control Tower
    • +7 compliance frameworks
    • service-linked AWS Config managed Config rules
  • Deadline Cloud worker performance monitoring
  • DynamoDB Streams Kinesis Client Library (KCL) 3.0
  • ECS updating capacity provider configuration for ECS services
  • EFS IPv6
  • EKS Pod Identity cross-account access
  • Elastic VMware Service
    • Amazon EVS | Preview
    • FSx for NetApp ONTAP
  • KMS post-quantum ML-DSA digital signatures
  • Lex conversational accuracy with LLM-Assisted NLU
  • Marketplace
    • Fin program for purchases for all US customers
    • Private Marketplace management in the console
  • MSK Express Brokers v3.8
  • Open Source pgactive: active-active replication extension
  • Powertools for AWS Lambda Bedrock Agents Function utility
  • Q Developer
    • IDE plugins with MCP tools
    • Java upgrade selective transformation in | Preview
    • Pro Tier upgrades for Builder IDs
  • RDS Custom Cumulative Update 18 for Microsoft SQL Server 2022
  • RDS for DB2 cross region standby replicas
  • S3 Tables storage cost visibility for individual tables
  • SageMaker GPU-accelerated instances price reductions
  • Verified Permissions reduces authorization request price by up to 97%
  • WAF automatic application layer distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection

tooling

• oterm: the terminal client for Ollama
• opentofu-ls: OpenTofu Language Server
• Canine: A modern, open source alternative to Heroku
• LibRedirect: A web extension that redirects YouTube, Instagram, Reddit, TikTok and other websites to alternative privacy-friendly frontends
• bake: mbake is a Makefile formatter and linter

blogs

• Git Notes: git's coolest, most unloved­ feature