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AWS Just Doubled the SCP Quotas. Here's What Actually Changes.
If you’ve ever opened a pull request to add one more Service Control Policy to your Landing Zone and watched it fail with “Max Allowed SCPs for ou ‘Infrastructure’ is 5, found total 6”, you’ve felt the pressure I’m about to talk about.
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Building a personal feed system, part 1: drowning in the firehose
I had 47 tabs open. AWS What’s New, a couple of company blogs, three podcast feeds, two YouTube subscriptions, X bookmarks, Substacks I’d been meaning to read. None of them were going to read themselves. That’s the moment I knew I had a problem the existing tools weren’t solving.
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AWS IP Ranges, Visualised
AWS publishes a JSON file every day that nobody reads. It’s at ip-ranges.json. 2.4MB, no story.
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Keeping Your AI Workloads Sovereign on AWS
An Australian lawyer asked me last week whether he could run “frontier Claude” on AWS Bedrock in Sydney and keep his client data in Australia. Simple enough question. The answer is one of those ones where you open your mouth ready to say “yes, obviously” and then close it again, because as of April 2026 the honest answer is “not the way you think, and here is the bit that will bite you.”
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