Aidan W Steele

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Aidan W Steele

@__steele

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

Melbourne, Australia Katılım Nisan 2011

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Aidan W Steele@__steele·14 Ara

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. newsletter.goodtechthings.com/p/crimes-again…

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Aidan W Steele@__steele·3d

@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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nico@VB_tins·4d

Tastes OK 👍 🍞

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nico@VB_tins·4d

first ever focciacia attempt

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Aidan W Steele@__steele·5d

@pinskinator @benkershner I’ve seen what you people do to UUIDs.. have you no shame? awsteele.com/blog/2026/04/0…

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Nikki Pinski@pinskinator·5d

@benkershner Look, we all launched Amazon Sumerian in 2019. But we didn't launch the 3rd competing UUID service until 2021 at the earliest!

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Ben Kershner@benkershner·6d

AWS circa 2019.

Adam Gordon Bell 🤓@adamgordonbell

I kinda hope this is a true story.

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Aidan W Steele@__steele·6d

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

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Matt Gillard@mattgillard·8 May

@__steele @QuinnyPig I immediately thought of you when I went to this NDA session like a month ago lol

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Corey Quinn@QuinnyPig·7 May

Can someone please educate me as to what problem this is solving?

AWS Newsroom@AWSNewsroom

AWS announces the preview of agentic payment capabilities in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. Built with @Coinbase and @Stripe, it's the first managed end-to-end payment infrastructure purpose-built for autonomous agents. go.aws/4niDzp4

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Aidan W Steele@__steele·8 May

@QuinnyPig @kmcquade3 @forrestbrazeal During that time I was finding really absurd corners of VPCs, e.g. this mess github.com/aidansteele/ma…

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Aidan W Steele@__steele·8 May

@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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Aidan W Steele@__steele·14 Ara

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Aidan W Steele@__steele·19 Nis

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. awsteele.com/blog/2026/04/1…

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Aidan W Steele@__steele·14 Nis

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

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Corey Quinn@QuinnyPig·13 Nis

DeployBar is live. Free macOS menu bar app. Monitors @GitHub Actions + @Vercel. Then a platypus roasts your commits. deploybar.app

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Aidan W Steele@__steele·9 Nis

@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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AJ Stuyvenberg@astuyve·8 Nis

A recruiter just DM'd me for a 250k-400k role. Loancrate, if any of you are looking (I'm not)

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AJ Stuyvenberg@astuyve·8 Nis

Yeah I don’t think people realize how hot this market is yet. 300k/remote is the new 180k/remote

Jack Raines@Jack_Raines

Put differently: don’t pattern match prior comp / team constructions for new startups. Cluely got a lot of hate for their ridiculous pay structure (like $400k+ for hires) but it actually wasn’t that crazy imo.

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Aidan W Steele@__steele·8 Nis

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. awsteele.com/blog/2026/04/0…

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Aidan W Steele@__steele·3 Nis

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

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dax@thdxr·2 Nis

idk how people manage infrastructure anymore every service has their own bespoke cli / config file and they don't support terraform well anymore your system is never just one provider so do people just have a mess of these smashed together?

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Aidan W Steele@__steele·3 Nis

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

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Rafal Wilinski@rafalwilinski·2 Nis

lambda team is one setting away (max timeout=15min) from expanding their usage x100 by turning their product into the best sandboxing runtime ever @jeffbarr pls

Rafal Wilinski@rafalwilinski

remember when we thought that hosting everything on hundreds of Lambdas was a good idea?

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Aidan W Steele@__steele·2 Nis

Thank you for fixing this, AWS aws.amazon.com/about-aws/what…

Aidan W Steele@__steele

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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Aidan W Steele@__steele·28 Mar

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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Aidan W Steele@__steele·27 Mar

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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Aidan W Steele@__steele·2 Mar

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?

Aidan W Steele@__steele

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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Aidan W Steele@__steele·27 Şub

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

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Michael Timbs@michael_timbs·27 Şub

@__steele many are saying that fax is making a comeback

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Michael Timbs@michael_timbs·27 Şub

If I'm one of the employees at block im praying to be on that cut list.

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Aidan W Steele@__steele·27 Şub

@michael_timbs I’m busy being a Claudboi anyway, learning how to ship a product myself. Unofax.com is the way of the future m8

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Michael Timbs@michael_timbs·27 Şub

@__steele yeah days after big layoffs are always such a strange atmosphere

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@VB_tins @pinskinator @benkershner @mattgillard @QuinnyPig @kmcquade3 @forrestbrazeal @github