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Show HN: RSS Feeds with News from AWS

60 points by matthieuchabert 6y ago

chenster 6y ago
Long live the RSS!
cblavier 6y ago
Nice product
- matthieuchabert 6y ago
  merci :)
Dunedan 6y ago
AWS actually isn't that bad when it comes to RSS feeds: Their official blog offers an RSS feed [1], but even better: each of their forum sections [2] offers a (quite hidden) RSS feed with all announcements in that section, which is quite handy if you're interested in news for a particular service only. For example here is the RSS feed for S3 announcements: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/rss/rssannounce.jspa?forumID=24 https://forums.aws.amazon.com/rss/rssannounce.jspa?forumID=2... [1]: http://feeds.feedburner.com/AmazonWebServicesBlog http://feeds.feedburner.com/AmazonWebServicesBlog [2]: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/ https://forums.aws.amazon.com/
- matthieuchabert 6y ago
  Well I always thought AWS had only one RSS feed for all their news thus parsing the feed and making this page. I did not know about a feed for each section. Thank you!
- threentaway 6y ago
  My team pipes some of these feeds along with others that we care about into a Slack channel. It works really well for staying on top of new releases.
  - davidstoker 6y ago
    I've done the same thing for a while on Slack subscribing to this feed to get notified about all new announcements: https://aws.amazon.com/new/feed/ https://aws.amazon.com/new/feed/ A little noisy at times but it has definitely helped me keep up to date on things.
Thomaschaaf 6y ago
I would like to see the ability to only get news are available for my aws region Frankfurt (or globally such as Cloudfront). I really don't care that service XYZ is now available in AWS GovCloud. I would like to get news regarding new services and be able to easily remove them if they are not interesting to me (e.g. Microsoft SQL). But I have to be honest I would not spend money on it.
- matthieuchabert 6y ago
  I'm building Cloudnews [0] to solve that. You can already subscribe to specific products (Lambda, CloudFront, etc) and get news via email or into Slack. I'm currently building the option to mute certain aws regions as you said. For now we only support AWS but Azure and GCP are coming soon. [0]: https://www.cloudnews.dev/ https://www.cloudnews.dev/
unwoundmouse 6y ago
This looks dope! What UI framework did you use?
- matthieuchabert 6y ago
  Thanks! I use a CSS framework called TailwindCSS https://tailwindcss.com/ https://tailwindcss.com/
jeffbarr 6y ago
This is cool, and closes a huge loop for me. Before joining Amazon in 2002, I built and ran Syndic8, a side project site that collected, polled, and organized RSS and Atom feeds for easy discovery. In addition to the web UI, Syndic8 featured a comprehensive web service API, powered by the then-popular XML-RPC protocol. Syndic8 was built on PHP and MySQL and hosted at a colo provider. I was never able to scale beyond a single instance at my colo, and have sometimes thought about how I would rebuild the site today using EC2, S3, DynamoDB, and so forth. My operational experience with XML, RSS, and web services was (I was later told) a deciding factor in the decision to hire me.
- matthieuchabert 6y ago
  Thanks for your comment. It put things in perspective, i was 5 years old in 2002.
NicoJuicy 6y ago
Nice implementation of RSS! I am dogfeeding something very similar to this. I actually wanted to see how fast i could set up something similar and this is what i came up with : http://cloudnews.sapico.me/ http://cloudnews.sapico.me/ ( i will delete it soon fyi) AWS: http://cloudnews.sapico.me/Home/ByTag?Name=AWS http://cloudnews.sapico.me/Home/ByTag?Name=AWS Azure : http://cloudnews.sapico.me/Home/ByTag?Name=azure-devops http://cloudnews.sapico.me/Home/ByTag?Name=azure-devops GCE: http://cloudnews.sapico.me/Home/ByTag?Name=gce http://cloudnews.sapico.me/Home/ByTag?Name=gce Cloudflare : http://cloudnews.sapico.me/Home/ByTag?Name=cloudflare http://cloudnews.sapico.me/Home/ByTag?Name=cloudflare You're layout is way more organized and "use-case" specific though! Very nice Just a heads-up though. I didn't see a monetization strategy behind my side-project and it does a lot more than what is "shown" now.
- forgotmypw17 6y ago
  That's a great demo! Thank you for sharing it. I especially like "your tags" feature.
stanislavb 6y ago
I love this RSS movement resurrection.
- asdff 6y ago
  it never really went away
- earthboundkid 6y ago
  As formats, RSS and Atom are bad. JSONfeed is better, but still not ideal. The NinJS format (News In JSON) is pretty much ideal, but no one uses it, sadly.
julien 6y ago
Think about making these feeds realtime with Websub :)
kapilvt 6y ago
https://awsapichanges.info https://awsapichanges.info was my foray into this, as a developer centric view that shows the actual api changes with method parameter diffing, also with RSS feed.
pedro1976 6y ago
If you looking for a niche feed, you might want to check out a general purpose feed generator rss-proxy [0]. It even supports JavaScript rendered pages. [1] https://github.com/damoeb/rss-proxy https://github.com/damoeb/rss-proxy
NeckBeardPrince 6y ago
Nice. I use AWS and GCP. Any plans to add GCP support? They support individual RSS feeds per Service.

chenster 6y ago

Long live the RSS!

cblavier 6y ago

Nice product

matthieuchabert 6y ago
merci :)

Dunedan 6y ago

AWS actually isn't that bad when it comes to RSS feeds: Their official blog offers an RSS feed [1], but even better: each of their forum sections [2] offers a (quite hidden) RSS feed with all announcements in that section, which is quite handy if you're interested in news for a particular service only. For example here is the RSS feed for S3 announcements: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/rss/rssannounce.jspa?forumID=24 https://forums.aws.amazon.com/rss/rssannounce.jspa?forumID=2... [1]: http://feeds.feedburner.com/AmazonWebServicesBlog http://feeds.feedburner.com/AmazonWebServicesBlog [2]: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/ https://forums.aws.amazon.com/

matthieuchabert 6y ago
Well I always thought AWS had only one RSS feed for all their news thus parsing the feed and making this page. I did not know about a feed for each section. Thank you!
threentaway 6y ago
My team pipes some of these feeds along with others that we care about into a Slack channel. It works really well for staying on top of new releases.
- davidstoker 6y ago
  I've done the same thing for a while on Slack subscribing to this feed to get notified about all new announcements: https://aws.amazon.com/new/feed/ https://aws.amazon.com/new/feed/ A little noisy at times but it has definitely helped me keep up to date on things.

Thomaschaaf 6y ago

I would like to see the ability to only get news are available for my aws region Frankfurt (or globally such as Cloudfront). I really don't care that service XYZ is now available in AWS GovCloud. I would like to get news regarding new services and be able to easily remove them if they are not interesting to me (e.g. Microsoft SQL). But I have to be honest I would not spend money on it.

matthieuchabert 6y ago
I'm building Cloudnews [0] to solve that. You can already subscribe to specific products (Lambda, CloudFront, etc) and get news via email or into Slack. I'm currently building the option to mute certain aws regions as you said. For now we only support AWS but Azure and GCP are coming soon. [0]: https://www.cloudnews.dev/ https://www.cloudnews.dev/

unwoundmouse 6y ago

This looks dope! What UI framework did you use?

matthieuchabert 6y ago
Thanks! I use a CSS framework called TailwindCSS https://tailwindcss.com/ https://tailwindcss.com/

jeffbarr 6y ago

This is cool, and closes a huge loop for me. Before joining Amazon in 2002, I built and ran Syndic8, a side project site that collected, polled, and organized RSS and Atom feeds for easy discovery. In addition to the web UI, Syndic8 featured a comprehensive web service API, powered by the then-popular XML-RPC protocol. Syndic8 was built on PHP and MySQL and hosted at a colo provider. I was never able to scale beyond a single instance at my colo, and have sometimes thought about how I would rebuild the site today using EC2, S3, DynamoDB, and so forth. My operational experience with XML, RSS, and web services was (I was later told) a deciding factor in the decision to hire me.

matthieuchabert 6y ago
Thanks for your comment. It put things in perspective, i was 5 years old in 2002.

NicoJuicy 6y ago

Nice implementation of RSS! I am dogfeeding something very similar to this. I actually wanted to see how fast i could set up something similar and this is what i came up with : http://cloudnews.sapico.me/ http://cloudnews.sapico.me/ ( i will delete it soon fyi) AWS: http://cloudnews.sapico.me/Home/ByTag?Name=AWS http://cloudnews.sapico.me/Home/ByTag?Name=AWS Azure : http://cloudnews.sapico.me/Home/ByTag?Name=azure-devops http://cloudnews.sapico.me/Home/ByTag?Name=azure-devops GCE: http://cloudnews.sapico.me/Home/ByTag?Name=gce http://cloudnews.sapico.me/Home/ByTag?Name=gce Cloudflare : http://cloudnews.sapico.me/Home/ByTag?Name=cloudflare http://cloudnews.sapico.me/Home/ByTag?Name=cloudflare You're layout is way more organized and "use-case" specific though! Very nice Just a heads-up though. I didn't see a monetization strategy behind my side-project and it does a lot more than what is "shown" now.

forgotmypw17 6y ago
That's a great demo! Thank you for sharing it. I especially like "your tags" feature.

stanislavb 6y ago

I love this RSS movement resurrection.

asdff 6y ago
it never really went away
earthboundkid 6y ago
As formats, RSS and Atom are bad. JSONfeed is better, but still not ideal. The NinJS format (News In JSON) is pretty much ideal, but no one uses it, sadly.

julien 6y ago

Think about making these feeds realtime with Websub :)

kapilvt 6y ago

https://awsapichanges.info https://awsapichanges.info was my foray into this, as a developer centric view that shows the actual api changes with method parameter diffing, also with RSS feed.

pedro1976 6y ago

If you looking for a niche feed, you might want to check out a general purpose feed generator rss-proxy [0]. It even supports JavaScript rendered pages. [1] https://github.com/damoeb/rss-proxy https://github.com/damoeb/rss-proxy

NeckBeardPrince 6y ago

Nice. I use AWS and GCP. Any plans to add GCP support? They support individual RSS feeds per Service.