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AWS Transform is several products. Continuous modernization went generally available on 3 August 2026. Pick one primary capability for the estate, or the program runs two campaigns at once.
Palaniappan POn October 9, 2026 Amazon Connect Customer added Save and validate in 8 Regions. Structural errors block activation. Gen AI warnings do not. The Gen AI check is capped at 3 in parallel and 30 per hour.
Palaniappan PA lab design review still had a cron server for a nightly job. Classic Lambda had already stopped at 900 seconds. Name the primitive, or name the stop-rule that keeps the box.
Palaniappan PA lab schedule after the 3 August 2026 GA returned findings and zero pull requests. Agentic-readiness scores 56 criteria. AWS-managed compute runs analyses only, and remediation still needs Batch or EC2.
Palaniappan PA lab renewal only changed the connection string, and a construct was still unconverted. Babelfish speaks TDS 7.1 through 7.4 on port 1433 and does not apply to Oracle. Identifiers longer than 63 characters are rewritten.
Palaniappan POn October 1, 2026, AWS opened Well-Architected Agent in preview. One profile covers up to 100 accounts on a 7-day refresh, and Business+ is limited to 2 profiles. Developer and Business support have no access.
Palaniappan POn 16 Sep 2026 AWS opened Sign up (new) with $100 in credits at signup, up to $200 over 6 months, and a project pinned to one of three Regions. Use advanced on day one for HIPAA, Marketplace, or a Region you choose.
Palaniappan POn 18 Sep 2026 SNS raised the payload ceiling to 1 MiB, four times 256 KiB, but only after you set MaximumMessageSize. A full 1 MiB Standard publish is 16 requests. At 50 cents per million requests, one million of those publishes cost 8 dollars before the free tier.
Palaniappan PDuckLake spec 1 shipped on 13 April 2026 and keeps lake metadata in a SQL database. DuckDB's architecture note puts Iceberg planning at about 100 ms per sequential S3 GET, roughly half a second before a query starts. On AWS, stay on S3 Tables when Athena, Glue, or Redshift must read the table.
Palaniappan POn August 4, 2026 Amazon Connect Cases gained workspace CSV export in 10 Regions, with a Cases.Export permission, a field picker, and a Cases-export-YYYY-MM-DD.csv file. Enable for the right roles only.
Palaniappan POn 2026-07-16 AWS put PostgreSQL 19 Beta 2 in RDS Preview. Our first-party REPACK CONCURRENTLY run cut an 873 MB bloated table to 429 MB in 4.5s with 60/60 concurrent SELECTs succeeding.
Palaniappan PFor an on-prem MySQL estate (~1.1 TB, 340 tables), DMS full load + CDC into Aurora MySQL cut planned downtime from 6h to 18 min, though LOB misconfiguration added 11 hours of rework before cutover.
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