Great start of the week to everyone! ❤️

Amazon S3 increases the maximum object size to 50 TB 😎

Amazon S3 has increased the maximum object size from 5 TB to 50 TB, making it easier to store massive files like high-resolution video, seismic data files, and AI training datasets. The new limit applies to all S3 storage classes and works with all existing S3 features. You can improve upload and download performance using the AWS Common Runtime (CRT) and S3 Transfer Manager. Large objects can still use S3 Lifecycle policies, Glacier archival, and S3 Replication. The 50 TB object size is supported in all AWS Regions. 💪

Read more details in the official announcement here:
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/12/amazon-s3-maximum-object-size-50-tb/

Amazon CTO Dr. Werner Vogels' final keynote 🔥

He shared predictions, talked about the future of AI, about resilience, about systems that adapt, renaissance dev. who is curious, thinks in systems, communicates, owns it, learns across fields and so much more.

🎥 Full keynote recording that is worth your time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y1G9najGiI

For those who want more deep dive and insider chat, see the comment sections here for:

📰 Kernel (AWS's printed tech newspaper) covered the highlights.
🎧 And because Werner is Werner, he did a "mic drop" and dropped vibe coding playlist too.

Small present for our founder friends: AWS Kiro Startup Program 🎁

While startups in major European hubs like France, Germany, Italy, and Spain are not currently eligible for this... Armenia IS. 🇦🇲
This is a rare and massive opportunity for our local ecosystem, so we want to make sure you don't miss it.

If you’re building an early-stage to Series B VC-backed startup, you may be eligible for up to 1 year of Kiro Pro+ credits.

If you haven't used Kiro yet, it’s an agentic AI-powered IDE that supercharges developer productivity.
If approved, the credits are automatically added directly to your AWS account.

Go through details and apply here: https://kiro.dev/startups/

Terraform Weekly newsletter issue #257.

IaCConf (January 28th, 2026) is a practitioner-led community and event series for people who build, run, and scale infrastructure-as-code. It’s focused on real-world IaC work—Terraform, OpenTofu, modules, pipelines, governance, and the tradeoffs teams actually deal with in production.

Issue #257:
* Pulumi for All Your IaC — Including Terraform and HCL by Joe Duffy
* Open Construct Foundation by Open Construct Foundation / Vincent De Smet
* Қазақша (Kazakh): Terraform ең жақсы тәжірибелері by Arman Nurgaliyev
* Eliminate sensitive values from Terraform state using write-only attributes by Sourav Kundu
* How I Built an AI Terraform Review Agent on Serverless AWS

Read here: https://shorturl.at/l30rJ

Today is the day ~ 🎉

Here is the "How to find us" at our old and gold friend DataArt's office:

Paronyan 40/2, Yerevan
Floor 5th by Elevator

See you! 🥰

Hey, people jan! ☀️
Special Message received from Aram ⤵️
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Excited to share what Nune and I are building on AWS here in Germany! 🇩🇪🇦🇲

OpsWorker.ai is an AI-powered platform that automatically investigates Kubernetes alerts - turning hours of manual investigation into a 60-second automated analysis.

📱 Instant Slack notifications deliver root cause + remediation steps
👍 Feedback collected right in Slack—we learn and improve from every investigation
💬 AI Chat (Claude Haiku) lets SREs dig deeper with follow-up questions

Human intuition + AI speed = faster incident resolution 🤝

We built this entirely on AWS serverless:
🔵 Lambda + EventBridge for orchestration
🟠 DynamoDB for multi-tenant storage
🔵 Amazon Bedrock: Claude Sonnet, Claude Haiku, Amazon Nova  
🟠 SQS FIFO for reliable K8s communication
🔵 SNS → Slack for instant notifications
🟠 CloudFront + WebSocket API for real-time chat UI

We'd love your feedback! If you're working on similar problems or have questions about our architecture choices, drop a comment below.

👉 Check Full Article and Architecture here -> https://www.opsworker.ai/blog/opsworker-ai-powered-incident-investigation-built-on-aws/ 

🎁 Small community thank-you

As a thank-you to the AWS UG Armenia community, we’re giving away 2 AWS hoodies (1 men’s, 1 women’s).

To participate:

1️⃣ Follow OpsWorker.ai on LinkedIn
2️⃣ Like & Share the LinkedIn post 👉: 4x4 OpsWorker.ai
3️⃣ Comment on the same post “AWS UG Armenia.”

📅 Winners announced on Feb 1

Thanks for being such an active and supportive community 🙌