[HN Gopher] Show HN: RSS Feeds with News from AWS
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       Show HN: RSS Feeds with News from AWS
        
       Author : matthieuchabert
       Score  : 37 points
       Date   : 2021-01-19 18:44 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.cloudnews.dev)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.cloudnews.dev)
        
       | Dunedan wrote:
       | 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=2...
       | 
       | [1]: http://feeds.feedburner.com/AmazonWebServicesBlog
       | 
       | [2]: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/
        
         | threentaway wrote:
         | 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 wrote:
           | 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/
           | 
           | A little noisy at times but it has definitely helped me keep
           | up to date on things.
        
         | matthieuchabert wrote:
         | 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!
        
       | NicoJuicy wrote:
       | 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/ ( i will delete it soon fyi)
       | 
       | AWS: http://cloudnews.sapico.me/Home/ByTag?Name=AWS
       | 
       | Azure : http://cloudnews.sapico.me/Home/ByTag?Name=azure-devops
       | 
       | GCE: http://cloudnews.sapico.me/Home/ByTag?Name=gce
       | 
       | 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.
        
       | cblavier wrote:
       | Nice product
        
         | matthieuchabert wrote:
         | merci :)
        
       | unwoundmouse wrote:
       | This looks dope! What UI framework did you use?
        
         | matthieuchabert wrote:
         | Thanks! I use a CSS framework called TailwindCSS
         | 
         | https://tailwindcss.com/
        
       | Thomaschaaf wrote:
       | 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 wrote:
         | 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/
        
       | jeffbarr wrote:
       | 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 wrote:
         | Thanks for your comment. It put things in perspective, i was 5
         | years old in 2002.
        
       | chenster wrote:
       | Long live the RSS!
        
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