Signing up now takes a Google, GitHub or Apple identity and, for most new customers, no card, with $100 in credits. Each project is a real AWS account carrying a monthly ceiling from $20 that AWS enforces by stopping the work.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives85
- Confidence55
New AWS sign-ups federate to a Google, GitHub or Apple login and arrive as a project whose resource permissions are set by the console and by whatever coding agent the owner pastes AWS's setup text into. The rollout covers new customers only.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption18
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives72
- Confidence52
Curated skills are files on your disk. The MCP server is a uvx proxy pinned to us-east-1. A dev.to walkthrough shows the wizard copying 23 skills into four agent trees, and the server going quiet if you press Esc.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption20
- Hype gap+6
- Incentives32
- Confidence54
A time-based deny on aws:TokenIssueTime invalidates every credential the role already handed out while the running fleet refreshes through it. The stolen session outlives the patch window by 90 minutes.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives22
- Confidence40
A dev.to post prices never-expire CloudWatch retention, missing S3 lifecycle rules and inherited RDS Multi-AZ, and gives the CLI query that finds each one in your account.
Reality
- Evidence44
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+14
- Incentives27
- Confidence46
A dev.to walkthrough shows a 100 TB bucket's storage line falling from $2,304.00 to $1,254.40. Retrieval, requests and per-object overhead are billed somewhere else, and nobody re-checks.
Reality
- Evidence64
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives34
- Confidence56
ACM stops offering email validation in new Regions on Jan 1 2027, blocks new requests on March 31, and stops renewing on Sept 30. The in-place switch to DNS keeps the certificate ARN.
Reality
- Evidence70
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+5
- Incentives55
- Confidence62