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Bartek Chojnacki

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Saturday, July 25, 2026
Friday, July 24, 2026

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams Gets Smart Scale-Down Powers

AWS just leveled up Kinesis Data Streams with the ability to scale down ingest capacity using warm throughput. Now you can dial back your stream's write throughput when traffic drops, keeping costs lean while maintaining peak-hour performance. It's like having a thermostat for your data pipeline—set it and forget it. Available free across all AWS regions for On-demand Advantage users.

AWS HealthLake Now Automatically Dedupes Your Patient Records

Tired of duplicate patient records messing up your healthcare data? AWS HealthLake's new resource matching feature automatically identifies and links duplicates across FHIR resources—no fancy master data management tools needed. It matches high-confidence identifiers like SSN and medical record numbers while keeping original records intact. Available in preview across multiple regions.

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