February 9, 2025
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After 20 years, and 3283 posts including as much as 1,577,106 phrases I’m wrapping up my time because the lead blogger on the AWS Information Weblog.

It has been a privilege to have the ability to “reside sooner or later” and to get to study and write about so lots of our improvements over the past 20 years: message queuing, storage, on-demand computing, serverless, and quantum computing to call just some and to go away many others out. It has additionally been a privilege to have the ability to meet and to listen to from so lots of you which have faithfully learn and (hopefully) discovered from my content material through the years. I treasure these interactions and your type phrases, and I preserve each in thoughts after I write.

Subsequent for Jeff
I started my profession as a builder. Over time I’ve written tens of 1000’s of traces of meeting code (6502, Z80, and 68000), Visible Primary, and PHP, together with a whole bunch of 1000’s of traces of C. Nevertheless, through the years I’ve progressively spent much less time constructing and extra time speaking about constructing. As every new service and have whizzed previous my eyes I’d memory about days and many years previous, after I may really use these goodies to create one thing cool. I went from being a developer who may market, to a marketer who used to have the ability to develop. There’s completely nothing fallacious with that, however I wish to construct. The medium may very well be code, 3D printing, LEGO bricks, electronics parts, and even cardboard –creating and innovating is what motivates and sustains me.

With that as my driving power, my purpose for the subsequent step of my profession at AWS is to take a position extra time targeted on studying and utilizing fewer issues, constructing cool stuff, and creating contemporary, developer-focused content material as I accomplish that. I’m nonetheless working to determine the shape that it will take, so keep tuned. I’m additionally going to proceed to make my weekly appearances at AWS OnAir (our Friday Twitch present), and I’ll proceed to talk at AWS group occasions across the globe.

Subsequent for the Weblog
As for the AWS Information Weblog, it has lengthy been backed by an superior group, each seen and invisible. Right here we’re on the current AWS re:Invent celebration of the weblog’s twentieth anniversary (photograph courtesy of Liz Fuentes with edits by Channy Yun so as to add those that have been in any other case occupied):

Throughout the celebration I advised the group that I look ahead to celebrating the 30 12 months anniversary with them at re:Invent 2034.

Going ahead, the group will proceed to develop and the purpose stays the identical: to offer our clients with rigorously chosen, high-quality details about the most recent and most significant AWS launches. The weblog is in nice fingers and this group will proceed to maintain you knowledgeable even because the AWS tempo of innovation continues to speed up.

Thanks Once more
As soon as once more I have to thank all of you for the very type phrases and gestures through the years. As soon as in your life, in case you work exhausting and get actually fortunate, you get a novel alternative to do one thing that actually and really issues to folks. And I’ve been fortunate.

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