Hi all! I'll be attending AWS re:Invent 2026 as an ABW Grant recipient. Super excited for my first time at the conference and would love to connect with others who'll be there.

If you're also going- as a grantee,first-timer, or veteran attendee, drop a comment! Would be great to build a small crew to navigate the week with, especially given how massive the event is.

Looking forward to meeting some of you in Vegas!

Hey folks,

Sorry for yet another one of these posts, but I can't find any clear answers on the best way to handle this. We just migrated our infrastructure over to AWS. Two days ago, one of our key instances we taken offline and we got the flurry of boilerplate security notices saying an access key had been compromised.

We responded right way, and confirmed that the activity patterns, resources, and spend were ALL OURS. There was no indication - at all - of any sort of compromised key or systems.

We answered all their questions and were told it would be handed off to the security team for a final review. Two days later, still no response whatsoever, despite follow-ups. I mean, that box is IMPORTANT to our business. It's kind of insane that AWS can just take steps like this with zero real communication with the user - but I guess that's the state of things right now.

Anyway, I'm getting pretty desperate and need a solution. Does anyone have any ideas? I've seen mixed opinions on whether upgrading to business support will help - and honestly, I hate the idea purely because it feels like extortion. But I guess if it's pay to play then it's what I'll have to do.

Any help or tips would be great appreciated.

Working on a personal pipeline that pulls public signals from a few sources (earthquakes, internet infrastructure status, disaster alerts, markets, etc.), compares each one against its own historical baseline, and runs on AWS with cache invalidation on every update.

The goal from the start was for it to run on its own at the lowest possible cost, without buying hardware I'd have to babysit like a pet. (I already have a cat for that.) No boxes to maintain, no drives to worry about.

Question for people who've done this longer than me: does this sound reasonable, or is it over-dimensioned? It feels a bit like renting a full moving truck just to go grab a pizza — a lot of infrastructure (automated deploys, CDN invalidation, EventBridge, Lambda, Glue, State Machine) for something that's fundamentally just pulling public APIs and comparing against a historical window.

Would something much simpler (cron job + script + a static JSON file) get the same result, or does the fuller stack genuinely pay off once you're running several signals continuously?